title: The neologism ontoi in Broussais's condemnation of medical ontology.
abstract: This note uses an analysis of Broussais's objection to medical ontology to suggest why Broussais's neologism ontoi is derived not from onta but from a conflation of onta and the plural of ogkos. For Broussais medical ontology, in contrast to philosophical ontology, always refers to abstract entities alleged to explain sensible symptoms, ogkoi, in the sense of indivisible particles in the writings of Lucretius and Epicurus, are such particles; onta are not.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Bole
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D009626:Terminology as Topic