![]() ![]() Instead, this article focuses on the nature of casebooks as artifacts of the medical encounter. ![]() Medical records, as other scholars have demonstrated, shaped the production of medical knowledge. Physicians increasingly modeled themselves on Hippocrates, recording details of cases as the basis for reasoned expositions of the histories of disease. ![]() These practices required systematic notation. Astrologers had a long history of working from particular moments, stellar configurations, and events to general rules. This article compares astrological and medical records across two centuries, focused on England, and charts developments in the ways in which practitioners kept records and reflected on their practices. Casebooks are the richest sources that we have for encounters between early modern medical practitioners and their patients. ![]()
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