![]() 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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