With this they could now make the history of the disease and therefore predict the development of a disease in the future. Hippocrates wanted to note down symptoms such as colour, pulse, fever, pain, movement and excretions and took notes regularly. He was also interested in learning about the patient's family and extended his questions and observations to family history. It was this approach and his innovative ideas of questioning that led him to be called the "father of modern medicine". Hippocrates wrote more than 70 books. He used his keen, meticulous and detailed observation style and with this was able to scientifically describe many diseases and their treatment. Hippocrates is credited with the first description of clubbing of the fingers or "Hippocratic fingers", an important diagnostic sign in lung disease and lung cancer (Medicine through