Hippocratic is traditionally referred to as the "Father of Medicine" in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field, such as the use of prognosis and clinical observation, the systematic categorization of diseases, or the formulation of humoral theory.
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Hippocratic is credited with greatly advancing the systematic study of clinical medicine, summing up the medical knowledge of previous schools, and prescribing practices for physicians through the Hippocratic Corpus and other works.
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Hippocratic'storians agree that Hippocrates was born around the year 460 BC on the Greek island of Kos; other biographical information is likely to be untrue.
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Hippocratic separated the discipline of medicine from religion, believing and arguing that disease was not a punishment inflicted by the gods but rather the product of environmental factors, diet, and living habits.
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An important concept in Hippocratic medicine was that of a crisis, a point in the progression of disease at which either the illness would begin to triumph and the patient would succumb to death, or the opposite would occur and natural processes would make the patient recover.
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In general, the Hippocratic medicine was very kind to the patient; treatment was gentle, and emphasized keeping the patient clean and sterile.
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Hippocratic medicine was notable for its strict professionalism, discipline, and rigorous practice.
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The Hippocratic physician paid careful attention to all aspects of his practice: he followed detailed specifications for, "lighting, personnel, instruments, positioning of the patient, and techniques of bandaging and splinting" in the ancient operating room.
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Hippocratic School gave importance to the clinical doctrines of observation and documentation.
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Hippocratic is said to have measured a patient's pulse when taking a case history to discover whether the patient was lying.
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Hippocratic is given credit for the first description of clubbing of the fingers, an important diagnostic sign in chronic lung disease, lung cancer and cyanotic heart disease.
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Hippocratic's teachings remain relevant to present-day students of pulmonary medicine and surgery.
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Hippocratic Corpus is a collection of around seventy early medical works collected in Alexandrian Greece.
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Hippocratic Corpus contains textbooks, lectures, research, notes and philosophical essays on various subjects in medicine, in no particular order.
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Hippocratic's contributions revolutionized the practice of medicine; but after his death the advancement stalled.
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Galen perpetuated the tradition of Hippocratic medicine, making some advancements, but some regressions.
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Hippocratic is certainly considered wise, of very great intellect and especially as very practical.
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Hippocratic's was transformed into a hundred-foot long dragon by the goddess Diana, and is the "lady of the manor" of an old castle.
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Hippocratic's emerges three times a year, and will be turned back into a woman if a knight kisses her, making the knight into her consort and ruler of the islands.
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Hippocratic face is the change produced in the countenance by death, or long sickness, excessive evacuations, excessive hunger, and the like.
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Hippocratic succussion is the internal splashing noise of hydropneumothorax or pyopneumothorax.
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