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hippocrates
/ˈhɪpəˌkɹeɪts/
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What does hippocrates mean?
proper noun
- A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἱπποκράτης (Hippokrátēs), notably borne by Hippocrates of Cos, an Ancient Greek physician, circa 5th century BC, sometimes called the "father of medicine".
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/ˈhɪpəˌkɹeɪts/
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Pliny, Hippocrates, Aristotle and others, speak of various preparations made of his flesh, for the cure of many distempers.
As Hippocrates long ago observed, if two pains are felt at the same time, the severer one dulls the other.
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But anything approaching a rational system of medicine was not established, until Hippocrates of Cos, the "father of medicine," came upon the scene.
I can do no more than indicate in the briefest possible way some of the more important views ascribed to Hippocrates.
There is a possibility that some of these cases of Hippocrates were instances of pyloric carcinoma or of stenosis of the pylorus.