Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Magdalen Hall

  • Thomas Sydenham, “The English Hippocrates”

    JMS PearceEast Yorks, UK Still Fever burns, and all her skill defiesTill Sydenham’s wisdom plays a double part,Quells the disease and helps the failing Art. -from a poem on plague by John Locke, 1668 From Hippocrates, “Father Of Medicine,” to William Osler, “Father Of Modern Medicine,” plaudits for doctors abound and venerate their varied virtues.…