MCQ (answer) on clinical coding and classification

The answer to the multiple choice question is item 4:

- a product of the 18th century driven by death?

François Bossier de Lacroix (1706-1777*), better known as Sauvages, is credited with the first attempt to classify diseases systematically.

Sauvages' comprehensive treatise was published under the title Nosologia methodica.

A contemporary of Sauvages was the great methodologist Linnaeus (1707-1778), one of whose treatises was entitled Genera morborum.

Beginning of the 19th century, the classification of disease in most general use was one by William Cullen (1710-1790), of Edinburgh, published in 1785 under the title Synopsis nosologiae methodicae.

My source:
http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/HistoryOfICD.pdf

Now(?) https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/history-of-the-development-of-the-icd

* I note sources that record Sauvage's year of death as 1767.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rhs_0048-7996_1969_num_22_4_2601

MCQ (question) on clinical coding and classification

Q. The development of clinical coding and classification systems, such as International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is …

1. a manifestation, since the 1960s, of health care specialisation and technology in medicine?
2. a product of the National Programme for Information Technology and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO)?
3. a product of Körner statistics and resource management in the 1990s?
4. a product of the 18th century driven by death?
5. an international initiative prompted by The Plague and launched by Dr Who?

Answer and further reading to follow next month.