Good morning/afternoon. Between 460-370BC roughly lived a man by the name of Hippocrates. He learned medicine from his father and grandfather, and then continued on to make his own theories about the medicines and diseases of the time. Hippocrates is credited to be one of the first people to believe that diseases were not a curse from the gods, but rather caused by more natural processes. He separated medicine from religion instead linking the cause of diseases to the living standards and conditions of the people who came to them sick. His focus on things was applying general diagnoses and passive treatments not wanting to assume that it was a specific ailment affecting the person. He started up his own school of medicine called the Hippocratic
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The Hippocratic Corpus is filled teachings, theories, diagrams, medicines that have all been collected into one place. It has over 60 works in it and while some of them have possibly been written by Hippocrates, many were also written by his students and added to the collection. Many believe that he wrote neither the Corpus or the Oath, however there are many theories and thoughts about who did. Some believe that there was possibly more than one Hippocrates and they were actually all descendants of the original one who just continued to carry on his original theories and works. Other believes that some of students wrote the Corpus and the Oath yet put it under his name to dedicate it to their teacher. The Hippocratic Oath however, was believed to have been taken by those entering the workforce into a field of medicine, this is in fact incorrect. The only record of this occurring was from 1558-1804, however in modern times it is often looked upon suspiciously by patients. The Hippocratic Oath mainly covers the expectations of how a doctor should act towards their patients, superiors and …show more content…
While not all of his ideas would have been amazing, some of them were so influential that even today they are still playing a large part in our medicine community, with his theories and teachings playing a large part in the beginning of the modernisation of western medicine. His students continued to carry on his teachings throughout the years and spread them around and now they are a focal point of modern day medicine and most people have heard the name Hippocrates even if they don’t know exactly what he did in his
The Hippocratic Corpus is filled teachings, theories, diagrams, medicines that have all been collected into one place. It has over 60 works in it and while some of them have possibly been written by Hippocrates, many were also written by his students and added to the collection. Many believe that he wrote neither the Corpus or the Oath, however there are many theories and thoughts about who did. Some believe that there was possibly more than one Hippocrates and they were actually all descendants of the original one who just continued to carry on his original theories and works. Other believes that some of students wrote the Corpus and the Oath yet put it under his name to dedicate it to their teacher. The Hippocratic Oath however, was believed to have been taken by those entering the workforce into a field of medicine, this is in fact incorrect. The only record of this occurring was from 1558-1804, however in modern times it is often looked upon suspiciously by patients. The Hippocratic Oath mainly covers the expectations of how a doctor should act towards their patients, superiors and …show more content…
While not all of his ideas would have been amazing, some of them were so influential that even today they are still playing a large part in our medicine community, with his theories and teachings playing a large part in the beginning of the modernisation of western medicine. His students continued to carry on his teachings throughout the years and spread them around and now they are a focal point of modern day medicine and most people have heard the name Hippocrates even if they don’t know exactly what he did in his