Case histories recording the progress of diseases in individual patients — the earliest clinical records. Seven books of detailed observations.
Start ReadingHippocrates catalogues epidemic diseases as they appear in specific places and seasons, establishing the empirical method of clinical observation.
The third book of the Epidemics, containing Hippocrates' detailed case histories of individual patients on Thasos — pioneering clinical narratives that track disease progression day by day with unflinching honesty about outcomes.