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Hippocrates

[hĭ-pok´rah-tēz]

(late 5th century b.c.). “Father of Medicine.” Son of a priest-physician, he was born on the island of Cos. By stressing that there is a natural cause for disease he did much to dissociate the care of the sick from the influence of magic and superstition. His carefully kept records of treatment and solicitous observation of ill persons provided a foundation for clinical medicine in the case report; by also reporting unsuccessful methods of treatment, he anticipated the modern scientific attitude. See also hippocratic oath.

Hippocrates

(hĭ-pŏk′rə-tēz′) Known as "the Father of Medicine." 460?-377? bc.

Greek physician who is associated with a body of influential writings that emphasized natural rather than supernatural causation and the role of nutrition and the environment.

Hip′po·crat′ic (hĭp′ə-krăt′ĭk) adj.

Hippocrates,

Greek physician, 460-370 B.C.

Hippocrates bandage

hippocratic - relating to, described by, or attributed to Hippocrates.

hippocratic facies - sunken appearance of facial features seen in dehydration.

hippocratic fingers - clubbing of the fingers.

Hippocratic Oath - an oath demanded of physicians about to enter the practice of their profession.

hippocratic splash - Synonym(s): hippocratic succussion

hippocratic succussion - a diagnostic procedure to test for obstruction of the pylorus of stomach. Synonym(s): hippocratic splash

hippocratism - a system of medicine attributed to Hippocrates and his disciples that is based on the imitation of nature's processes in the therapeutic management of disease.

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Hippocrates is thought to have lived from 460 to 370 B.C.E., during the great age of Greek cultural dominance.

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A collection of about 60 eponymous "writings of Hippocrates," the work of a number of authors, has come down to us.

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The medical profession has come a long way since Hippocrates first said, "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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Little is known about the life of Hippocrates of Cos, the most famous physician of antiquity.

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Philosophy, for Strauss (and Maimonides), is a permissible activity, it is an activity splendidly rewarding to its practitioners, but it is also socially therapeutic and hedged with duties every bit as solemn as those ascribed to medical practice by the code of Hippocrates. The first of these is: Do no harm.

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