semiography

— In treating of the semiography of the disease, Dr Hope restores to its place among the rational signs, that of jugular venous pulsation, or turgescence of the jugular veins, with pulsation synchronous with that of the arteries, originally specified by Lancisi, but rejected on insufficient grounds by Corvisart.

— Masson's semiography, rectifying millennia of scrptorial history, refers us not to origins (what do we care about origins?) but to the body: it imposes upon us not the form (banal proposition of all pointers) but the figure, i.e., the elliptical collision of two signifiers: the gesture beneath every ideogram as a kind of evaporated figurative outline, and the gesture of the painter, of the calligrapher, which makes the brush move according to his body.

— Metallov further assumed that Græco-Syrian semiography came to Russia through Mt. Athos; but as we mentioned earlier, Athos at that time was still relatively young as a monastic state, although it was inhabited by monks of various countries.

— Abundant graphic documentation of Frutiger's work, together with the books by Shepherd and Dreyfus, serve as the basis for modern comprehension of the principles of semiography.