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Hippocrates   /hˈɪpəkrˌeɪts/  /hɪpˈɔkrətiz/   Listen
Hippocrates

noun
1.
Medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC).



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"Hippocrates" Quotes from Famous Books



... must be added that pleasures enjoyed too often and to excess would be a very great evil. There are some which Hippocrates compared to the falling sickness, and Scioppius doubtless only made pretence of envying the sparrows in order to be agreeably playful in a learned and far from playful work. Highly seasoned foods are injurious to health and ...
— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz

... the same effect was made long ago by Hippocrates and by the illustrious Harvey; for both assert that a young animal forgets in the course of a few days the art of sucking, and cannot without some difficulty again acquire it. I give these assertions on the authority of Dr. Darwin, 'Zoonomia,' ...
— The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals • Charles Darwin

... raised against its vital principles, we ought by this argument most heartily to despise the medical science, and medical men; he gives all here he can collect against physic and physicians, and from the confessions of Galen and Hippocrates, Avicenna and Agrippa, medicine is made to appear a vainer science than ...
— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian



Words linked to "Hippocrates" :   Hippocratic, medical man, medical practitioner



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