H
ippocrates (460-377 BC) was a great physician who lived during the Golden Age of Greece. Modern medicine can trace its roots to his ideas.
Living at a time when diseases were treated by which doctors and magicians, Hippocrates like a doctor of the 20th century. He said while curing the sick, a doctor should consider the nature of humans in general and of each individual and the characteristics of each disease. In short his view was that the doctor should look into the whole human mechanism rather than focus on the symptom of a disease. He recommended that ‘exercise strengthens and inactivity wastes’.
Hippocrates did not make many discoveries and his theory of blood circulation was wrong. But what he did was to formulate the theoretical base and the procedures by which medical science was to develop in the future. In fact, he laid down the framework of modern medical practice.
Hippocrates Oath
The Hippocrates Oath written by Hippocrates way back in 4th century BC, is still respected and recited by doctors the world over. It is the foundation of modern medical ethics. The tents contained in it relate to a doctor’s responsibilities to his patients, doctor-patient confidentiality and a doctor’s study to treat anyone regardless of his social status.
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