An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

CABOT, Richard Clarke

2 entries
  • 11559

Case teaching in medicine: A series of graduated exercises in the differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of actual cases of disease.

Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1906.

"The first comprehensive description of the 'Cabot case' style of medical teaching that evolved into the classic clinicopathological case (CPC) mode. Cabot had a special interest in heart disease and was a pioneer of the concept of specialty clinics" (W. Bruce Fye). The book is designed so that each case appears in a single page opening on the left page with the right page blank for students to write their diagnoses.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.


  • 12224

The four common types of heart disease: An analysis of 600 cases.

J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 63, -1461-1463, 1914.

"The first appearance of Cabot's innovative classification of cardiac disease that was widely adopted" (W. Bruce Fye, American Cardiology. Baltimore, 1995, 49-50.)



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE