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Hippocrates “Large” the or Hippocrates de Cos (in Greek: Ἱπποκράτης Hippokratês ) (towards 460 av. J. - C., island of Cos - towards 370 av. J. - C., Larissa) was a Greek doctor of the age of Périclès considered as one of the great figures of the Histoire of medicine.

He is often recognized like the father of medicine thanks to his notable contributions in the discipline and to the foundation of the hippocratic School of medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece, establishing it as disciplines distinct from other fields with which it had been traditionally associated (in particular the Théurgie and the Philosophie), making of this fact of medicine a profession.

However, the achievements of the authors of the Corpus, of the experts of hippocratic medicine and the actions of Hippocrates are often mixed; thus very few things are known on what Hippocrates really thought and wrote. Nevertheless, Hippocrates is generally depicts like the model of the ancient doctor. In particular, it is often credited to have advanced considerably the systematic study of medicine, summarizing the medical knowledge of the preceding schools, and the installation of practices for the doctors through the Hippocratic oath and other work.

History

Hippocrates was born towards -460 on the Greek island from Cos ( Kos ) and became a famous doctor and professor of medicine.

He belongs to Asclépiades, family of priest-doctors venerating Asclépios, god of medicine. Like his colleagues, he travels through the basin the Mediterranean N to learn and practice. He is famous being with Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian War, and becomes there disciple of Démocrite and Gorgias.

He founded the medical school of Cos.

Whereas he lives in Thessalie, he dies in Larissa (although it is not a certainty).

Hippocrates is also known to have refused to look after Artaxerxès II, in spite of important gifts that this one proposed to him.

Soranus d' Ephesus, a gynecologist of the 2nd century, was the first biographer of Hippocrates and is the source of the majority of information on Hippocrates.

Its work

Hippocrates is regarded as the father of medicine. Its currency is “above all, not to harm” ( Primum not nocere , in Latin). It is regarded as the first doctor Occident Al to have clearly separated the exercise from its art of a context religious.

Hippocratic oath

See also: Hippocratic oath

He is in particular the author of many works of medicine, of which the Aphorismes , and of famous the Hippocratic oath who enacts the professional duties of the doctor. This oath is still lent today, in a hardly modified form, by the doctors at the end of their studies. The first aphorism “ Ὁ βίος βραχὺς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρὴ, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξὺς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερὴ, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή. The life is short, vast medicine, the fugitive occasion, the misleading experiment, and the delicate judgment” remains regarded as the base of the medical art. it will be known as that the medcine is there this him even which improved the life of humanity.

Diagnosis

Dietetics

Its name

Its name was given to a medicinal drink very much used with the Middle Ages: the Hypocras

See too

Sources

Alberto Jori, Medicina E medici nell' antica Grecia. Saggio sul “Perì téchnes” ippocratico, Bologna, edition it Mulino, 1996.
Jacques Jouanna, Hippocrates , Beech, 1992.

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