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Hippocrates of Kos (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ k r ə t iː z /, Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, romanized: Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
The Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370 BC), to whom the oath is traditionally attributed. The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical ...
misspelling of Hippocrates; Hypocrates (song), by Welsh singer Marina Diamandis This page was last edited on 15 ...
The Bible [1] is a collection of religious texts or scriptures which to a certain degree are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The ...
Hippocrates was born c. 460 BCE on the Greek island of Kos. [5] The verifiable details of his life are few, despite centuries of hagiographic accounts. [6] According to tradition, Hippocrates was born into a hereditary order of priest-like physicians known as Asclepiads.
The word was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, a long series of propositions concerning the symptoms and diagnosis of disease and the art of healing and medicine. [4] The often-cited first sentence of this work is: " Ὁ βίος βραχύς, δὲ τέχνη μακρή " – "life is short, art is long", usually reversed in order ...
Hippocrates was born circa 460 BCE on the island of Cos in Greece. Hippocrates was looked at as a teacher and physician. His name is in around sixty medical articles, most of these medical articles were not written by him.
Hippocrates of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης, Hippokrátēs; c. 459 – 424 BC), the son of Ariphron, was a strategos of the Athenians in 424 BC, serving alongside Demosthenes. In the summer of 424, Hippocrates and Demosthenes set out from Athens to seize the long walls of Megara (which connected the city with its port Nisaea).