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Book Review
Medical Science: Ancient & humours of black and yellow bile, phlegm and blood,
mirroring the so-called four essences of earth, air, water
Modern and fire. Bloodletting would be prescribed to overcome
this imbalance; as well as other disabused information
Robin Lane Fox. The Invention of Medicine, From Homer such as identification of disease as a factor of the season.
to Hippocrates. New York: Basic Books, 2020. Perhaps most interestingly, the Hippocratic approach
David Eagleman. Livewired: The Inside story of the Ever- stressed the proper deportment of the doctor practitioner,
Changing Brain. New York: Pantheon Books, 2021. to cultivate what we still refer to as “bedside manner,”
“I will apply all regimens for the benefit of the sick advising him to show good manners, be properly scented
according to my ability and judgment, but if they are and avoid telling jokes, so as to allay the anxieties of
for harm or injustice, I will obstruct them to the best of the patients, perhaps most relevantly to guard against
my judgment.” from the Hippocratic Oath (5th century misuse and abuse of his authority, to avoid evil. The
B.C.E.) case studies that were undertaken by Hippocrates and his
“I am a little world made cunningly.” John Donne’s Holy associates were extolled later by Aristotle and the great
Sonnet V (17th Century) physician Galen, and found a basis of medical treatment
no records of successful treatments. The notations for two millennia, as an empirical, fact driven approach
By Dr. Ronald J. Meyers reveal that few lives, if any, were saved. The fallacious
theory of humours ascribing disease to imbalance of the Book Review on page 9
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ethical failures and lapses of men, also a principal point
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advancement of medicine was a principal achievement of and Lynn Graber, R. Ph.
the Age of Pericles. The “Epidemic” doctors associated
with the medical profession, named for Asclepius the god
of medicine, presented case studies which have survived
until today, and reveal the approach through empirical
observation and notation. Hippocrates, Fox argues, was
both a historical individual and a figure of fiction and
myth like the Biblical Joseph. Thought to have been born
on the island of Coz in 460 B.C., he travelled among
the Greek islands mainly Thasos, seeing patients and
describing their condition with the objective of curing
them. Fox argues that Hippocrates may well have been
among other doctor-writers who left a significant record
of their case studies, as well as wide ranging studies On
Glands, On Ancient Medicine, On Breaths, and most
significantly On Prognostication. From these eye-witness
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