The man who standardized a diagnostic handbook 3,000 years ago

Around 1060 BCE a Babylonian scholar named Esagil-kīn-apli acted as a kind of editor-in-chief, organizing scattered materials into the standard version of a large diagnostic handbook that linked patients' symptoms to expected outcomes. His edited series became the authoritative reference copied by scribes for centuries afterward.

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