Hippocrates

Hippocrates of Cos (c. 460 BC - 377 BC) was an Ancient Greek physician, is commonly regarded as one of the most outstanding figures in medicine of all time and has been 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.

Hippocrates associated personality traits with the relative abundance of the four humours in the body: phlegm, yellow bile, black bile, and blood.

The whole collection of works of the Hippocratic medical school were gathered as the Hippocratic Corpus.

The best known of the Hippocratic writings is the Hippocratic Oath.

Another famous, time-honoured medical rule ascribed to Hippocrates is Primum non nocere (First, do no harm).

Incorrectly credited with the Hippocratic oath.

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Aphorisms
Instruments Of Reduction
Of The Epidemics
On Airs, Waters, And Places
On Ancient Medicine
On Fistulae
On Fractures
On Hemorrhoids
On Injuries Of The Head
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
On The Articulations
On The Sacred Disease
On The Surgery
On Ulcers
The Book Of Prognostics
The Law
The Oath

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