Knowra Hippocratic Corpus Hippocratic Corpus The Hippocratic Corpus is a collection of ancient Greek medical treatises written by multiple authors across several centuries and traditionally attributed to Hippocrates.
Hippocrates : An ancient Greek physician traditionally regarded as the founder of medicine and namesake of the Hippocratic tradition. His name became attached to a collection whose authorship is much broader.
Clinical observation : The systematic recording of a patient's symptoms, course of illness, and response to treatment. Hippocratic case records make close observation central to medical reasoning.
Classical Greece : The period of Greek history conventionally dated from about 500 to 323 BCE. Many corpus texts took shape within the intellectual and political worlds of this period.
Hippocratic medicine : A tradition of ancient Greek medicine associated with natural explanations, clinical observation, and regimen. The corpus became the chief textual foundation for this medical tradition.
Ancient Greek medicine : The medical theories and practices developed in ancient Greek societies. The treatises document a diverse body of Greek medical thought and practice.
Prognosis : A prediction of the likely course and outcome of a disease. The texts treat forecasting an illness's course as a mark of medical expertise.
Hippocratic Oath : An ancient Greek ethical pledge associated with physicians and preserved among the Hippocratic writings. This famous text is one distinct work within the larger collection.
Four humors : The four bodily fluids—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile—central to an influential ancient medical model. Corpus writings helped establish humoral explanations that dominated medicine for centuries.
Humoral theory : A theory that health depends on the balance of bodily fluids, especially blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. Several treatises explain illness through imbalances among bodily fluids.
Regimen (medicine) : A planned pattern of diet, exercise, sleep, and other habits used to maintain or restore health. Diet and daily habits are prominent tools for managing illness in the corpus.
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