Knowra Hippocratic medicine Hippocratic medicine Hippocratic medicine is an ancient Greek medical tradition associated with Hippocrates and the writings attributed to him. It explained illness through natural causes and emphasized clinical observation, prognosis, and regimen.
Hippocratic Corpus : A collection of around seventy ancient Greek medical treatises associated with Hippocrates and his school. These varied treatises preserve the tradition’s clinical observations, theories, and prescriptions.
On the Sacred Disease : A Hippocratic treatise arguing that epilepsy has natural causes rather than divine origins. It applies naturalistic reasoning to a disease commonly treated as sacred.
Hippocrates : A Greek physician from Cos, conventionally dated to the fifth and fourth centuries BCE and regarded as medicine’s founding figure. His name became attached to a diverse body of medical writings and practices.
Hippocratic Oath : An ancient Greek medical pledge prescribing duties and limits for practitioners. It became the tradition’s best-known statement of medical obligations, though its original use is uncertain.
Humoral theory : A theory that health depends on the balance of bodily fluids, or humors. Several Hippocratic writings explain illness through imbalances among bodily fluids.
Airs, Waters, Places : A Hippocratic treatise examining how climate, water, location, and customs affect health. It connects disease patterns with environmental conditions and ways of life.
Cos school of medicine : A medical tradition associated with the island of Cos and several Hippocratic writings. Cos is a principal setting linked to the tradition and its early medical community.
Bedside medicine : Medical practice grounded in direct examination and care of patients. Hippocratic case-based attention to individual patients anticipates this clinical ideal.
Clinical observation : The systematic recording and interpretation of signs, symptoms, and changes in a patient’s condition. Hippocratic case histories make repeated observation a basis for judging disease.
Epidemics : A Hippocratic work containing case histories and observations of diseases in particular places and periods. Its case records illustrate how symptoms and outcomes were tracked over time.
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