ABSTRACT
Throughout this book we have seen the powerful influence of the concept of ‘Hippocrates, father of medicine’, as the hero who freed the emerging science from the chains of superstition and introduced empirical observation, while incarnating the eternally correct doctor/patient relationship in his bedside manner. In 1922, Charles Singer visualised Hippocrates as ‘Learned, observant, humane … orderly and calm … grave, thoughtful and reticent, pure of mind and master of his passions’.
