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What is Medical History? and Story of the Medical History...

The clinic medical history is the legal document, it contains all data psicobiopatologic of a patient. It is important to reiterate the value of the clinical history. A good clinical history is helpful in legal trouble.

"It is the weapon of basic medical"

Story of the Medical History

The first fourty two complete histories can be found in the book the epidemies 1 and 3 of the Corpus Hipocraticum with them comes the elementary document medical experience that also represents the fundamental document of medical knowledge. It was continued in the middle age with the Consilea and during the renaissance, it received the name of Observatio.


It was perfectinated by Sydenham and it was clmpleted trough of XVlll centruy with the anatomo clinic methodology and in the XIX with the develpoment of phisipathological technical. The complexity of the clinical history suffered a fast increase though the XX century when it turns into multidisciplinary and of forced fulfillment. The computerizacion of the clinical histoyy can suppose radical changes in the XXI century.


The anatomo clinic concept refers to the analysis of the body, it follows in the 3rd century in Alexandria, where he started with corpses for visible pathologies.

The history of its development became a legal medical document of great importance and a multidisciplinary field, wich functions as a defense for doctors.


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