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He afterwards returned to Montpellier, where he Obtained 
a professorship in 1734. His reputation for ingenuity of 
speculation and extensive reading, and his knowledge of 
mathematical science, seemed to retard his progress to prac¬ 
tice ; as it was hinted that he was a mere ingenious theorist; 
nevertheless his studies never interfered with his attention 
to the diseases which he was called upon to treat. He 
adopted with ardour the doctrine of Stahl respecting the 
influence of the anima medica, and was disposed to 
combine this with the principles of the mechanical sect. 
In 1740 Sauvages was appointed demonstrator of the plants 
in the botanic garden, and in 1752 he was made professor 
of botany ; in the performance of the duties of which office 
he obtained the same celebrity, which he had acquired in 
the discharge of his other avocations. He married in 1748, 
and had two sons and four daughters, who survived him. 
A serious disease, which continued nearly two years, un¬ 
fortunately cut him off in the midst of his useful and honour¬ 
able career, in the month of February, 1767, in the 61st 
year of his age. 
Sauvages was a man of great simplicity of manners and 
openness of character. He was much loved by his pupils, 
because he communicated freely all that he knew, and re¬ 
ceived with equal readiness whatever information any one 
was enabled to give him. His knowledge came forth with¬ 
out pomp or display, in the way of ordinary conversation, 
though the habit of teaching sometimes impressed the for¬ 
mality of lecture upon his manner in private: nevertheless, 
the ability and information which he always evinced, shed 
a charm upon his society. Sauvages was an able mathe¬ 
matician, and an accurate observer of phenomena, was inge¬ 
nious in devising experiments, and indefatigable in the 
performance of all useful labours. He had, however, a 
little too much bias to systems, so that he did not always 
consult facts uninfluenced by prepossession. He was a 
member of the most learned societies of Europe, viz. of the 
Royal Society of London, of those of Berlin, Upsal, Stock¬ 
holm, and Montpellier, of the Academia Naturae Curio- 
sorum, of the Physico-Botanical Academy of Florence, 
and of the Institute of Bologna. He obtained the prizes 
given by many public bodies to the best essays on given 
subjects, and a collection of these prize-essays was published 
at Lyons in 1770, in two volumes, with the title of “ Chef 
d’CEuvres de M. de Sauvages.” The following is a list of 
his works:—“Dissertation sur les Animaux venimeux;” 
“ Nouvelles Classes des Maladies dans un ordre semblable 
a celui des Botanistes, comprenant les genres et les especes,” 
Avignon, 1732, in 12°. This is the skeleton of his great 
system of nosology, which has celebrated his name, but 
which was not published in its complete form till after an 
additional labour of thirty years had been bestowed upon it. 
“ Memoire sur les Eaux Minerales d’Alais, pour servir a 
1’Histoire Naturelle de la Province,” 1736; “Theoria 
F bris;” Monspel. 1738, in which he supported the theory 
of Stahl; “Pathologia Methodica,” 1739; “La Maniere 
d’elever les Vers a Soie,” 1740; “ Nova Somni Theoria,” 
id.; “ De Motuum vitalium Causa,” 1741 ; “ Inflam- 
mationis Theoria,” 1743; “Memoire sur les Maladies des 
Bceufs du Vivarais," 1746; “ Dissertatio de vasorum ca- 
pillarium corporis humani suctu,” 1747; “De Noctam- 
bulatione,” 1748; “ De Hemiplegia per Electricitatem 
sanata,” 1749; a prize-essay “ Sur la nature et la cause 
de la Rage," id.; “Conspectus Physiologicus,’’ 1751; 
“ Methodus foliorum; seu plantse Flora Monspeliensis juxta 
foliorum ordinem, &c.” Hag. 1751. This work contained 
about 500 plants, omitted in the Botanicon Monspeliense 
of Magnol. “ Dissertation sur des Medicamens qui affec- 
tent certaines parties du corps plutot que d’autres,” Bour- 
deaux, 1752; Nova pulsus et circulationis Theoria,” id.; 
“Embryologia, seu, Dissertatio de Fcetu,” 1753; “Sy¬ 
nopsis morborum oculis insidentium, genera et species ex- 
ponens,” id.; «Theoria Tumorum,” id.; a prize disser¬ 
tation “ Sur la maniere dont l’air agit sur le corps hu- 
main," 1754; “ Physiologic Mechanicse Elementa," 1755; 
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“ Theoria doloris,” 1757. Three dissertations in this and 
the following year, “De Respiratione difficili;” “ De 
astrorum influxu in hominem;” “ De Visione.” In 1759 
“ Medicinse Sinensis Conspectus;" and «Theoria Con¬ 
vulsions : and in the three following years dissertations 
“ De Amblyopia,” “ De Suffusione,” “ De Anima 
rediviva,” “ De Catharticis,” “ De prognosi Medica ex 
Necrologis eruenda;” and an answer to Eberhard, “ De 
animi imperio in eorp.” His last work was the great result 
of more than thirty years’ labour, “ Nosologia Methodica, 
sistens morborum classes, genera, et species, juxta Sydenhami 
mentem, et Botanicorum ordinem,” Amst. 1763, in five 
volumes, 8vo.; a work with which his name will survive 
as long as nosology is the subject of the study of the phy¬ 
sician. We have entered at length into the plan and prin¬ 
ciples of the classification of diseases proposed by Sauvages, 
in a former article. (See Pathology.) He had himself 
collected many new observations and descriptions, with a 
view to incorporate them in a second edition; but he did 
not live to accomplish this intention. These materials, how¬ 
ever, were used by Dr. Cramer, in a new edition, published 
at Amsterdam in 1678, in two vols. 4to. See Eloy Diet. 
Hist, de la Medecine. 
SAUVAGESIA [so named by Linnaeus, in honour of 
Franco is Boissier de Sauvages, Professor at Montpellier; au¬ 
thor of Methodus foliorum], in Botany, a genus of the class 
pentandria, order monogynia, natural order of gruinales.— 
Generic Character. Calyx: perianth five-parted; leaflets 
lanceolate, acute, concave, spreading, permanent. Corolla -. 
petals five, blunt, equal, rhomb-ovate, length of the calyx. 
Nectary, leaflets five, smaller, alternate with the petals, ob¬ 
long, erect, surrounded by many shorter hairs. Stamina: 
filaments five, awl-shaped, very short. Anthers oblong, 
acute, short. Pistil: germ ovate. Style simple, length of 
the stamens. Stigma simple, blunt. Pericarp: capsule 
ovate, acuminate, one-celled, three-valved at the top. Seeds 
numerous, very small, fastened to the sutures in a longitudi¬ 
nal row. —Essential Character. Calyx five-leaved. Co¬ 
rolla five-petalled, fringed. Nectary five-leaved, alternate 
with the petals. Capsule one-celled. 
Sauvagesia erecta, or upright Sauvagesia.—This is an an¬ 
nual plant, having the habit of hvpericum or corchorus. 
Stem erect. Leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, bluntly ser¬ 
rate. Peduncles lateral, one-flowered; upright when in 
flower, bent down when in fruit. Flowers white. Easily 
distinguished by its ciliate stipules.—Native of St. Domingo, 
Martinico, Jamaica, Surinam, and Guiana. 
SAUVES, a small town in the south-east of France, in 
Languedoc, department of the Gard, on the small river 
Vidourle. It has 3000 inhabitants, and some manufactures 
of silk and woollens; 21 miles north-west of Nimes. 
SAUVETAT, a town in the south west of France, de¬ 
partment of the Lot and Garonne, with 2800 inhabitants; 
14 miles north-east of Marmande. 
SAUVETAT DE GAURE, La, a small town in the 
south-west of France, department of the Gers. Population 
1300; 9 miles south west of Lectoure. 
SAUVETAT DE SAUVERE, La, a large village in 
the south-west of France, department of the Lot and Ga¬ 
ronne. Population 1400; 10 miles north-west of Valence, 
and 9 north-by-east of Agen. 
SAUVETERRE, a small town in the south of France, 
situated between the Aveyron and the Viaure. It has a po¬ 
pulation of 3500, and some trade in wine; 14 miles south¬ 
west of Rhodez, and 11 south-east of Villefranche. 
SAUVETERRE, a small town in the south-west of 
France, department of the Lot and Garonne, on the river 
Allemance. It contains 1100 inhabitants, and has exten¬ 
sive iron works; 6 miles north of Fumel. 
SAUVETERRE, a small town in the south-west of 
France, department of the Lower Pyrenees, on the Gave 
d’Oleron. Population 1200; 9 miles south-west of 
Orthez. 
SAUVETERRE, a small town in the south-west of 
France, 
