With this, they could now write the history of disease and thus predict the evolution of an illness in the future. Hippocrates was keen to note symptoms such as color, pulse, fever, pain, movements and excretions and regularly took careful notes on them. He also wanted to know the patient's family and extended his questions and observations to family history. It is this approach and his innovative ideas of questioning that have earned him the nickname “Father of modern medicine”. Hippocrates wrote more than 70 books. He used his keen, meticulous and detailed observational style and was thus able to use a scientific manner to describe many diseases and their treatment. Hippocrates is credited with the first description of clubbing fingers or "Hippocratic fingers", an important diagnostic sign in lung disease and lung cancer (Medicine through