单选题 According to the passage, an adherent of the "nominalist school" cited in the third paragraph would classify a rare new fever in which of the following ways?

• (A) She would establish what cures the fever, then compare the treatment with other successful treatments to classify the disease.
• (B) She would wait until the disease appears in other patients, then classify it by establishing variations in their symptoms.
• (C) She would determine whether the disease is acquired or genetic, then classify it accordingly.
• (D) She would isolate the bacteria or virus or genetic anomaly which causes the disease, then classify it accordingly.
• (E) She would describe the patient's symptoms, compare them to patients who have had similar symptoms, then treat the pattern as a disease.