(n.) A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sarcomas (fleshy tumors) were distinguished from carcinoma (crab leg tumors) at the time of Hippocrates.
(2) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(3) Hippocrates, Hunter, Lucas-Championniere, and David advocated judicious motion.
(4) Already Hippocrates recommended decompression-trepanation for the treatment of hydrocephalus.
(5) He studied Hippocrates' Airs, Waters and Places, which deals with environmental factors, and the treatise On Regimen especially thoroughly.
(6) The meaning of the quotation "I do not give any abortive remedy" is obscure since in other contexts Hippocrates distinguished between abortive and contraceptive drugs and also abortive instruments.
(7) On the basis of these principles, perhaps Hippocrates should be considered the true father of operations performed upon the hand.
(8) Galen was looked as the most famous medical man after Hippocrates.
(9) Hippocrates observed that to maintain health it is important to keep the yellow bile from the liver in balance.
(10) The Z-Plasty was originally described in the writings of Hippocrates and since that time has developed into one of the most useful techniques in facial plastic surgery.
(11) In this context, it should be remembered that Hippocrates and Socrates both emphasized that a good physician should strongly consider the patient's environment as an aid in diagnosis.
(12) Hippocrates (460-375 BC) was the first to describe cutaneous ulcers under the heading of herpes esthiomenos.
(13) By 400BC, the Greek physician Hippocrates (he of the oath) had distinguished between benign and malignant tumours.
(14) Some short texts which were added in later times to the "Works of Hippocrates" ("Physician", "Precepts", "Decorum") provide us with some information on a physician's daily life (see also H.M. Koelbing, The Hippocratic physician at his patient's bedside, in Practitioner 224, 1980, 551-554).
(15) Greek medical, gyneoclogigcal instruments for adminsitering abortions were described by Hippocrates.
(16) The principles of Hippocrates's teaching and practice with respect to general medicine, sportsmedicine, and orthopaedics are described.
(17) Most of this essay on the abortion problem in French-speaking western Europe concerns the Sermon of Hippocrates forbidding abortion; the discussion ends with an ethical discussion on abortion codes in a pluralist society.
(18) Even though they have been taught since the time of Hippocrates, the specific clinical characteristics of malignant tumors have only recently been apprehended and studied on cellular and biochemical levels.
(19) Hippocrates had plenty of this special sense which, it seems, is not excessive among men.
(20) As Hippocrates so wisely noted, one needed to study the athlete to know, with appropriate modifications, what is best for every patient, young or old.
Hippocratic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
(2) The Hippocratic concept of preceptor education as an alternative has much to recommend it in replacing the present system, which underwrites the cost of student education through research grants and subsidies, but greatly neglects the continuing education of the practicing physician.
(3) As many as 7% of psychiatrists admit to having sexual intercourse with patients, despite ethical prohibitions going back to the Hippocratic Oath.
(4) His writings on epilepsy over 40 years are on a par with the Hippocratic writings on the Sacred Disease.
(5) I suggest a technologists’ Hippocratic oath : First, harm no users .
(6) The documents of the Hippocratic tradition and clinical experience indicate that a more appropriate and helpful first principle would be "Above all, be useful."
(7) And yet in his effort and commitment to the exact code of the Hippocratic oath, he paid with his life.
(8) He’s seemingly supportive of every Gove policy, and comes up with bone-headed initiatives of his own – teacher MOTs and Hippocratic oaths being the most worrying.
(9) The group of public-minded cybersecurity volunteers proposed a “hippocratic oath” for connected medical devices last week, suggesting that manufacturers of the devices (which pose tempting targets and can cause huge personal suffering if hacked) abide by a set of principles including supporting “prompt, agile and secure updates” and working with third-party researchers to ensure potential security issues can be safely reported.
(10) Plato, Aristotle and Chrysippus, the Hippocratic authors and Erasistratus in the testimony of Aulus Gellius, Plutarch and indirectly also of Cicero, and then Galen and Macrobius have a special place in the development of this topic.
(11) Whoever dreamed up Labour’s policy of a Hippocratic oath for teachers clearly hadn’t remembered the power of citizen journalists and social media to instantly disable ill-thought-through ideas.
(12) Non-contagionists put forward several hypotheses to explain the origin and the spreading of cholera, mainly "miasma" theory and the Hippocratic paradigm of "epidemic constitution".
(13) Alternatives to the Hippocratic tradition for the resolution of problems in medical ethics include the major Western religious systems, Western secular philosophy, and non-Western systems of religion and theory.
(14) The Hippocratic Oath and 1980 Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association (AMA) are compared to evaluate the nature of the relationship between students and teachers of medicine and the ethical injunctions that guide practice and make up the essence of the Hippocratic Oath.
(15) These thoughts about an ethic of international health can be summarized in a very free revision of the Hippocratic Oath: I will share the science and art by precept, by demonstration, and by every mode of teaching with other physicians regardless of their national origin.
(16) The recognition of structural correlates with disease provided a release from the Hippocratic humors which dominated the approach to medicine for more than a thousand years.
(17) Some short texts which were added in later times to the "Works of Hippocrates" ("Physician", "Precepts", "Decorum") provide us with some information on a physician's daily life (see also H.M. Koelbing, The Hippocratic physician at his patient's bedside, in Practitioner 224, 1980, 551-554).
(18) Edmund Pellegrino has pioneered work in medical ethics calling for a reconstruction of Hippocratic ethics.
(19) This central tenet of the hippocratic oath is as relevant to economic policy-makers as to physicians, particularly as the global economic picture grows more ominous.
(20) The evolution of medical epistemology and its implications in the field of cardiology is also described from the hippocratic treatises to the present.