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Ancient Greek physician, by common consent regarded one of the most outstanding figures in medicine of all times. He is often called 'the father of medicine'. He was a leader of a remarkable medical school of Cos and the author of most of writings of the school. |
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Ancient Greek physician, commonly regarded one of the most outstanding figures in medicine of all times. He is often called 'the father of medicine'. He was the leader of a medical school of Cos and the author of most of writings of the school. |
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He had a great impact on succeeding generations of practitioners of medicine and some general rules still apply. His work and writings rejected superstition and magic of primitive medicine and laid the foundations of medicine as a branch of science. |
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He had a great impact on succeeding generations of practitioners of medicine and some general rules still apply. His work and writings rejected the superstition and magic of primitive "medicine" and laid the foundations of medicine as a branch of science. |
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The whole collection of works of the Hippocratic medical school were gathered as the Hippocratic Corpus. |
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The whole collection of works of the Hippocratic medical school were gathered as the Hippocratic Corpus. |
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Another famous, time-honoured medical rule ascribed to Hippocrates is : 'Primum non nocere' (First, do no harm). |
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Another famous, time-honoured medical rule ascribed to Hippocrates is : 'Primum non nocere' (First, do no harm). |
Ancient Greek physician, commonly regarded one of the most outstanding figures in medicine of all times. He is often called 'the father of medicine'. He was the leader of a medical school of Cos and the author of most of writings of the school.
He had a great impact on succeeding generations of practitioners of medicine and some general rules still apply. His work and writings rejected the superstition and magic of primitive "medicine" and laid the foundations of medicine as a branch of science.
The whole collection of works of the Hippocratic medical school were gathered as the Hippocratic Corpus.
The best known of Hippocratic writings is [Hippocratic Oath]?.
Another famous, time-honoured medical rule ascribed to Hippocrates is :
'Primum non nocere' (First, do no harm).
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