Broussais was the inventor of "physiological medicine", a crucial step in the development of modern scientific medicine. (Ackerknecht, Bull. Hist. Med. 27, 320). Translated into English by John Bell and R. La Roche as A treatise on physiology applied to pathology, Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea, 1826. Digital facsimile of the French edition from the Internet Archive at this link, of the English translation, also from the Internet Archive at this link.