Abstract
Francis BACON in 1605 wrote... "the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man's body and to reduce it to harmony." This poetic concept of the physician displays the fundamental insight that poetry achieves repeatedly as it holds the mirror to human affairs. There is today a growing awareness of the many strings in the fine instrument of man, and of the necessity for tuning them all to produce the harmony that is health. Bacon recognized his era's sad lack of knowledge concerning people and disease, but he made some amazingly prescient suggestions. Long before Thomas Sydenham was born, Bacon urged a return to the long discarded Hippocratic "diligence which used to set down a narrative... of his patients, and how they were judged by recovery or death"; he found "medicinal histories deficient." With pathology not even in its infancy, Bacon urges that the "footsteps of
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