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Hippocrates, the Physician
03-02-2013 17:32Hippocrates is usually considered to be the founder of scientific medical practice and frequently referred to as the “father of Western medicine” and founder of the “Hippocratic oath”. Hippokrates was born on Kos Island, into a family of priests, claiming to be descendants of Asclepius.
He traveled throughout Greece to study Philosophy and returned to his homeland Cos to practice healing and medicine and established a school that became renowned in the ancient world.
Although, Hippocrates was not the first physician, he was for sure the first to rationalize the causes and the effects, systematizing the already conquered fields of knowledge on medicine and put theory in practice.
He also noted that diet, occupation, and climate were important factors in causing diseases and that the physician should use natural treatments to cure them, establishing the diagnosis.
He was also the first to describe some clinical symptoms that have been named after him as an honor: Hippocratic fingers (a deformity of the fingers and fingernails), Hippocratic succussion (the internal splashing noise of hydropneumothorax). Hippocrates also was the inventor of some medicine tools like Hippocratic bench and Hippocratic bandage are two devices named after Hippocrates.
Hippocrates is also credited with establishing a code of conduct for all new doctors coming out of the ancient Hippocratic School, the Hippocratic Oath. This vow is his legacy to his contribution to medicine and emphasizes the importance of ethical conduct. This oath is still administered to medical school graduates today, two and a half millennia later and remains the modern-day standard for behavior in the field of medicine.
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