History of medicine and history of ideas: from Sigerist to Canguilhem

Historians of philosophy and historiography have consistently neglected the relevance of Henry E. Sigerist's works on history of medicine to Canguilhem's conception of the historicization of the sciences. This article aims to shed some light on the intellectual circumstances that connected two of the last century's most important historians of medicine, by following the influence of Sigerist's book Introduction à la Médecine upon Canguilhem's historical technique of the investigation of medical thought