What is pathography?

To the Editor: I read with great interest about your search in dictionaries for the word "pathography".1

Correspondence:

1. van der Weyden MB. Extinguishing empathy [From the Editor's desk]. Med J Aust 2002; 177: 401.<eMJA full text>
2. Schioldann J. Den patografiske tradition og metode. Dansk Medicinsk Årbog (Copenhagen) 1983; 91-104.
3. Moreau (de Tours) J. La psychologie morbide dans ses rapport avec la philosophie de l'histoire ou l'influence des névropathies sur le dynamisme intellectual. Paris: Masson, 1859.
4. Schioldann J. The Life of D. G. Monrad, 1811–1887. Manic-depressive disorder and political leadership. Odense: Odense University Press, 1988.
5. Lawrence J. The psychiatry of leadership and the psychiatrist as leader. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 1988; 22: 245-256.
6. Schioldann J. The psychiatry of leadership. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 1988; 22: 344-346.

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