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Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae

First published: 1769

Editions: 1769, 1771, 1780, 1785, 1790

Influential classification of diseases into four classes: pyrexiae (fevers), neuroses (nervous disorders), cachexiae (constitutional diseases), and locales (localized diseases).

Institutions of Medicine, Part I: Physiology

First published: 1772

Editions: 1772, 1777, 1785

Medical textbook on physiological principles and bodily function.

First Lines of the Practice of Physic

First published: 1777

Editions: 1777, 1778, 1781, 1784, 1788

Cullen's most popular and successful work. A comprehensive medical textbook that became a standard reference throughout Europe and America.

Lectures on the Materia Medica

First published: 1773

Editions: Multiple editions and translations

Lectures on medicinal substances and their therapeutic applications.

A Treatise of the Materia Medica

First published: 1789

Editions: 1789

Published when Cullen was 79 years old. Comprehensive treatise on medicinal substances, widely used in Europe and America as a standard work for about forty years.

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