title: [The uneven history of clinical examination].
abstract: Clinical examination was developed by Hippocrates to understand diseases and patients. This approach was later almost abandoned in the Middle Age before a revival and a period of flowering at the beginning of the XIXth century. The multiplication of other new means of examination again provoked its decline, which has presently stopped, allowing a better balance of clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux Cedex.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hoerni
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bénézech
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000266:history*; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D049690:History, Ancient; D049692:History, Early Modern 1451-1600; D049691:History, Medieval; D049711:History, Modern 1601-; D012106:Research / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Les aléas de l'examen clinique.