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In Leiden, Hermann Boerhaave (1668–1738) advocated a medical chemistry according to Hippocratic principles, and in France, Philippe Pinel (1745–1826), the pioneer of psychiatry, erected Hippocrates as a model to follow.
Dec 14, 2016 · By 1750 the Hippocratic oath had been translated into English and other European languages, and for several centuries a version of the oath was recited by graduating doctors. As the practice of medicine has changed so have the oaths taken.
- Kathy Oxtoby
- 2016
Mar 2, 2022 · The Hippocratic Oath is the oldest and wisest description of our profession. It contains profound wisdom on the nature of health, healing, and the relationships both within and without that are necessary to the good practice of medicine.
- William Stigall
- Linacre Q. 2022 Aug; 89(3): 275-286.
- 10.1177/00243639211069431
- 2022/08
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Hippocrates of Kos was a Greek physician who lived from about 460 B.C. to 375 B.C. At a time when most people attributed sickness to superstition and the wrath of the gods, Hippocrates taught that all forms of illness had a natural cause. He established the firstintellectual school devoted to teaching the practice of medicine. For this, he is widel...
Approximately 60 medical documents associated with his name, including the famous Hippocratic oath, have survived to this day. These documents were eventually gathered into a collection known as the Hippocratic Corpus. While Hippocratesmay not have written all of them himself, the papers are a reflection of his philosophies. Through Hippocrates' ex...
Hippocrates is often credited with developing the theory of the four humors, or fluids. Philosophers Aristotle and Galen also contributed to the concept. Centuries later, William Shakespeare incorporated the humors into his writings when describing human qualities.
The humors were yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm, according to \"The World of Shakespeare's Humors,\" an exhibition by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Each humor was associated with a particular element (earth, water, air or fire), two \"qualities\" (cold, hot, moist, dry), certain body organs and certain ages (childhood, adolesce...
Differences due to age, gender, emotions and disposition could be attributed to the interactions of the humors, according to the NIH exhibition. Heat stimulated action; cold depressed it. Someone with a choleric disposition was courageous, but phlegm caused cowardice. Youth was hot and moist; age was cold and dry.
According to the ancient theory, the key to good health was to keep the humors in balance; an excess or deficiency in one or more of the humors was associated with disease. Food was one of the most important ways to help balance the ratio of these humors. In fact, one of Hippocrates' most famous quotes is, \"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be...
Although these practices and the concept of the four humors may sound strange and unscientific today, these ideas represented the first step away from the predominantly supernatural view of sickness and a step toward a new idea that illness is related to the environment and what is going on inside the body.
The Hippocratic Corpus, which is widely considered the oldest set of medical documents, is a collection of about 60 texts, or \"books,\" containing lectures, textbooks, research, cases and philosophical essays on a variety of medicine-related subjects. Some of the writings are short, like only a paragraph, while others run several volumes, accordin...
Many of today's physicians believe the oath is inadequate to address today's economic, political and social challenges for example, legalized abortion, physician-assisted suicide and other practices that were unheard of in Hippocrates' time, according to Tyson. However, doctors still hold sacred its principles: treat the sick to the best of one's ...
Jan 1, 2015 · Hippocratic humoralism is the medical theory to describe health and disease in terms of the balance of four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile (Fig. 1). The Hippocratic triangle of medical practice comprises the interaction of the patient, the disease, and the physician (Fig. 2).
- James_Marcum@baylor.edu
In order to understand the Hippocratic revolution in medicine and how it led to the perception of the brain as the ruling member of the body, we must think of ancient Greece at three different but unequal points in time.
Sep 8, 2003 · This passage states the essence of a fundamental concept on which to ground medical practice: a recognition of the destructive potential of unleashing the power of medical therapies in the wrong place and at the wrong time. Several important harms could occur in the wake of such use.
