Hippocrates' Woman by King Helen

Author:King, Helen.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781134772209
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

few nurses know with what perfection and minuteness he has described all that they are taught of symptoms and the meaning of every shade of expression, change of position …

(Nutting and Dock 1907: 76)

and, in a clearly political bid, claimed that Hippocrates stated that ‘the assistant was the co-worker with the physician’ (1907: 78).

In Dock and Stewart’s A Short History of Nursing, first published in 1920 and quickly established as the standard work, this approach is continued, so that the absence of nurses from the Hippocratic corpus becomes merely an issue of terminology; Hippocrates detailed the technique of ‘what we now call nursing’ (Dock and Stewart 1938: 32; repeated by Donahue 1985: 76). In a more recent history of nursing the Greeks are assigned the distinction of being

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