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who lived from 1757 to 1805.
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He was a physician,
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a physiologist and medical philosopher.
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He was also an administrator
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of the hospitals in Paris,
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and an early supporter of the French Revolution.
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But the point I want to stress today was
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that in terms of medical philosophy
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he was a sensualist.
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He believed that all mental
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processes are derived from the five senses,
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and therefore in medicine the source of knowledge