Hippocrates

Hippocrates article, “Airs, Waters, Places”, discusses the different effects that the environment has on the human body and how the body functions differently when it is exposed to different airs, waters, or locations. He changed the concept of medicine of his day, by creating the concept that illness was not only defined by the body, but that you must take external factors into account as well. According to Hippocrates, illness is directly related to the atmosphere a person is in and the…

The story of Protagoras starts out with a dialogue between Socrates and Hippocrates. Hippocrates is excited that Protagoras is in town because Hippocrates wants to be the disciple of Protagoras. Socrates knows that Hippocrates is young, naïve, and excitable, so he questions him about what he really wants to learn from Protagoras. He says to Hippocrates, “Are you going to commit your soul to the care of a man you call a Sophist, and yet you hardly think that you know what a Sophist is?” Socrates…

human mind (power point 2). Hippocrates was known as the father of medicine and he focused on natural philosophy. According to the power point, he would have patients undergo physical and spiritual cleansing. Hippocrates was also famous for his healing, teaching, he founded a school of medicine, his empirical method of observation, and classification of diseases (power point 2). In the article, “The Hippocratic Ideal,” also discussed some of the philosophies Hippocrates believed in and how…

In On the Sacred Disease, which was written in 400 BCE, [Hippocrates] advocated for the separation between medicine and religions. According to the [Hippocrates], the symptoms of the on-set epilepsy were seen as signs of “sacred disease” in the religious context. Doctors then “use divinity as a pretext and screen of their own ability to afford any assistance”…

taxonomies and subtypes. The two most focused on in this essay are "The Four Humors", created by the ancient Greeks, and the psychodynamic theory of personality by Sigmund Freud. One of the earliest known theories of personality was proposed by Hippocrates. He characterized human behavior into four temperaments called 'humors', each dealing with a different bodily fluid. The humor "sanguine" was characterized by blood. If you had an excess of blood, you were considered to be optimistic. The…

The concept of “blending” as championed by such scholars as Aristotle and Hippocrates states that any trait that an offspring receives is the average of both of its parents. This concept was widely believed until Mendel’s experiments. Incomplete dominance occurs when the heterozygous phenotype is an intermediate between both of the homozygous genotypes. This concept is demonstrated best through the inheritance of petal color in a snapdragon. In a heterozygote the phenotype would be pink, a mix…

common infectious diseases that afflict children inflammation and has a long incubation period. Also, It is a pair of salivary glands located behind the cheeks and below the ears. Parotitis and orchitis were described by Hippocrates in the 5th century BCE in 1934. Euclid Hippocrates was born to the island of Kos about the year 460 BC, famous veterans physicians.…

Here we can see a blatant expression of the phrase, “history repeats itself.” In the time of Hippocrates, the temples of healing had been in decline, due to what Hippocrates saw as an excess of “…sophistry and priestcraft…” Even before the time of The Trotula, there was a great deal of theological influence in the field of medicine. As it is today, men dominated the medieval Catholic Church. In keeping with the image of the bridge, the twelfth century Church’s involvement in women’s medicine,…

Mental heath has been misunderstood since the beginning of time and continues to be a misconceived subject. Although, mental health treatment has come a long way from the ancient Paleolithic trephining, which was the process of boring a hole into the skull to relieve pressure in the head or clear out bone fragments. The Ancient Greeks were one of the first civilizations to have mental health treatment similar to modern day. Their journey to the understanding of the brain is fascinating as they…

each other (Nardo 57). Comparable to Aristotle, Hippocrates became known as “The Father of Medicine” in the Western world for his work. Before Hippocrates stepped into the picture, doctors believed illnesses were punishments from the gods, and relied on herbs, spells, and rituals to heal someone (59 Nardo). Having Hippocrates mend a broken bone opened up the eyes of most doctors to entrust their careers in logic. (Nardo 59). Outside of Hippocrates’ doings, other figures like Alcmaeon and Galen…