Hess V
Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Germany.
Theor Med Bioeth. 1998 Jun;19(3):203-13. doi: 10.1023/a:1009957730860.
Medical semiotics in the 18th century was more than a premodern form of diagnosis. Its structure allowed for the combination of empirically proven rules of instruction with the theoretical knowledge of the new sciences, employing the relation between the sign and the signified.