nosologist
(nəˈsɒlədʒɪst)
[f. as prec. + -ist. Cf. F. nosologiste.]
One who is occupied with, or learned in, nosology.
| 1777–84 Cullen First Lines Physic (1808) I. §734 The Petechia has been, by all our Nosologists, enumerated amongst the exanthemata. 1800 tr. Cullen's Nosology Pref. 18 The characters of former Nosologists appear to me, in general, too short and defective. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. 20 ‘Tell me the name of the disease’ was the motto of the nosologist, ‘and I will tell you the remedy’. 1884 M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 339 Nasal hemorrhage was classed by the nosologists of the last century as a substantive disease. |