Abstract
ABSTRACT Since MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), the system used for classifying documents for the Index Medicus, is unavailable in French, Professor Chevallier, of the Rene Descartes University in Paris, created CANDO, an alpha-numeric classification for biomedical documents.This classification has two axes or facets: one is represented by two numbers (01, 02, etc), the other by two letters (AB to ZZ). In this fourth edition there are 79 two-digit rubrics or descriptions representing subject headings in medicine and basic sciences, methods of investigation, prevention and therapeutics, and general pathology. These headings are considered to be common denominators.The second axis contains two-letter descriptors, which are actually locators related to humans and their environment. This facet is based on the assumptions that a human being is a physical structure, an agglomerate of chemical substances, a juxtaposition of cells and living tissues, the sum total of body parts, regions, and organs; and that humans
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