Word: aesculapius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes of the average Briton, London's Harley Street far outranks any temple of Aesculapius as a shrine of healing. But last week Harley Street was shocked through its whole six-block length by a rude noise: "Some of the greatest consultants in the land do work in Harley Street," declared Neurologist Richard Alan John Asher, "but so do some of the greatest scoundrels...
...swear by Apollo the physician and by Aesculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses . . ." Beginning with these words, budding doctors for centuries have solemnly taken the ponderous Hippocratic oath-upon graduation. Modern physicians still pledge themselves to "keep [this oath] according to my ability and my judgment...