Hippocrates

The Father of Modern

Medicine
Hippocrates, considered the "Father of
Medicine",was an ancient Greek physician, who
lived in the Age of Pericles. He is one of the
.

most famous figures in the medical history,

becoming the first to do away with superstition
and focus completely on rational thought
concerning medicine. He is the founder of the
Hippocratic school of medicine, as well as the
supposed
author
of
the Hippocraticum
Corpus or the Hippocratic Corpus, in which the
legendary Hippocratic Oath is contained

Hippocrates Contributions to Modern Medicine

Hippocrates has made many notable contributions to the world of
medicine. These major contributions the invention of prognosis to
new views on treatments. He initiated prognosis by looking at the
symptoms of the illness and comparing them to previous cases,
allowing Hippocratic physicians to evaluate the course of the illness.
He was also the first to categorize illnesses. These categories are
acute, chronic, endemic, and epidemic. He also introduced other
medical terms such as crisis, peak, relapse and exacerbation. He has
been given credit for describing the first instance of clubbing

Author of Book:
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

Four Humors:

This is a diagram of the four humors and if one was

unbalanced then you would be ill.

Hippocrates Theories and Treatment

Humorism
This theory dominated the medical thinking in the West for almost
two millenia. This theory states that the body is healthy when the
four fundamental humors are balanced (pepsis), and disease results
when they are unbalanced (dyscrasia). The four humors are yellow
bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood.

Methods of Treatment
Hippocrates believed that the body had incredible power to heal
itself. Usually, he would prescribe improved diet and exercise. If these
failed however, he would resort to other methods such as herbal
therapy, bloodletting or, very infrequently, surgery.

The Hippocratic Corpus

The Hippocratic
Corpus (Latin: Corpus
Hippocraticum),
or Hippocratic Collection, is a collection of around 60 early
Ancient Greek medical works strongly associated with the
physician Hippocrates and his teachings. They are, however,
varied in content, age, and style, and are largely of unknown
authorship.

The Hippocratic Oath

The Hippocratic
Oath (Greek horkos)
is
an
oath
historically
taken
by physicians and physician assistants. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical
texts. It requires a new physician to swear, upon a number of healing gods, to uphold
specific ethical standards.

Hippocrates
Also Listed In: Philosophers
Famous as: Physicist, Philosopher, White Magic
Exponent, Medicine Expert and a School of
Thought.
Nationality: Greek
Born on: 460 BC
Born in: Kos, Ancient Greece
Died on: 370 BC
Place of death: Larissa, Ancient Greece
Father: Heraclides
Mother: Praxitela
Children: Thessalus, Draco
Works & Achievements: Physicist, Philosopher,
White Magic Exponent, Medicine Expert and a
School of Thought.