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'''Hippocrates''' was the [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] [[physician]] who has come to be acknowledged as the Father of [[Medicine]], and who gave his name to the [[Hippocratic Oath]]. | '''Hippocrates''' was the [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] [[physician]] who has come to be acknowledged as the Father of [[Medicine]], and who gave his name to the [[Hippocratic Oath]]. | ||
Associated with the medical school on the island of [[ | Associated with the medical school on the island of [[Cos]] in the fourth to the fifth centuries [[Common Era|BCE]], he advocated a basic approach to the diagnosis and treatment of disease that still has applications in modern medicine: "The code of conduct for doctors outlined in the Hippocratic Oath, a vow commonly taken by modern doctors", remains an ethical guideline in medicine.<ref>"Hippocrates of Cos" in ''Scientists: Their Lives and Works'', Vols 1–7. Online Edition. U*X*L, 2004. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007. Document Number:K2641500095.</ref> | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 12:42, 1 April 2007
Hippocrates was the Ancient Greek physician who has come to be acknowledged as the Father of Medicine, and who gave his name to the Hippocratic Oath.
Associated with the medical school on the island of Cos in the fourth to the fifth centuries BCE, he advocated a basic approach to the diagnosis and treatment of disease that still has applications in modern medicine: "The code of conduct for doctors outlined in the Hippocratic Oath, a vow commonly taken by modern doctors", remains an ethical guideline in medicine.[1]
Notes
- ↑ "Hippocrates of Cos" in Scientists: Their Lives and Works, Vols 1–7. Online Edition. U*X*L, 2004. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007. Document Number:K2641500095.