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Greek physician · c. 460–370 BC · Medicine
Separated medicine from superstition on the island of Kos, and gave his name to the oath doctors have argued over ever since.
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“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgement difficult.”
Hippocratic Corpus, Aphorisms I.1
Hippocrates of Kos taught and practised during the age of Pericles, and the sixty-odd texts collected as the Hippocratic Corpus were written by several hands over generations rather than by him alone. What unites them is an insistence that disease has natural causes. On the Sacred Disease argues that epilepsy comes from the brain, not from the gods, and mocks the healers who say otherwise. The corpus emphasises careful observation, case records, diet, rest and the healing tendency of the body itself. The oath, in its original form, includes confidentiality and a promise to avoid deliberate harm. The theory of four humours came from the same school and held Western medicine back for two thousand years.
You can put that to the Hippocrates persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Hippocrates’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of c. 460–370 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Hippocrates persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Hippocrates’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of c. 460–370 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Hippocrates persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Hippocrates’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of c. 460–370 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Hippocrates persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Hippocrates’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of c. 460–370 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Hippocrates persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Hippocrates’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of c. 460–370 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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