Hippocratic Corpus
Collection of ancient Greek medical works attributed to Hippocrates.
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The works vary in content, age, style, methods, and views, and authorship is largely unknown.[1] The corpus became the foundation upon which Western medical practice was built.[2] Around 60 early Ancient Greek medical works closely tied to Hippocrates and his teachings make up the Hippocratic Corpus.[1]
Quick Facts
- Field
- Medicine
- Nationality
- Ancient Greek
- Known for
- Foundation of Western medical practice; collection of medical works attributed t
- Number of works
- Around 60
Facts from the source article.
What happened
He rejected the prevailing belief that health and illness were conferred by the gods and instead focused on natural causes.[3][4] The majority of the works date from the last decades of the 5th century BC and the first half of the 4th century BC.[5] None of the texts in the corpus is proven to be by Hippocrates himself.[5] The Hippocratic Oath, a landmark declaration of medical ethics, is the most famous work in the corpus.[6]
Works from both the Coan and Cnidian schools of ancient Greek medicine are present in the corpus.[7] The Four Humours—Phlegm, Yellow Bile, Blood, and Black Bile—are used within the corpus to explain diseases.[8]
What the cited sources add
A 2015 paper by Poulakou-Rebelakou et al. notes that the Hippocratic Corpus contains varying hypotheses on how urinary tract stones formed, all based on uroscopy and patient observation.[9][10] The same paper states that the main mechanism for detecting bladder disease was through the appearance of urine and its changes over time.[9][11]
References
- Wikipedia, "Hippocratic Corpus" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Iniesta, "Hippocratic Corpus", British Medical Journal, 2011, p. d688; "Reinventing Hippocrates", Ashgate, 2002 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hippocratic Corpus" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Reinventing Hippocrates", Ashgate, 2002; Ventegodt, "The Purpose of the Medical Ethic of Hippocrates was Efficient Healing of the Patient", Nova Biomedical Books, 2012, p. 155–162; Pavlidis, "The treatment of cancer in Greek antiquity", European Journal of Cancer, 2004-09-01, p. 2033–2040 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hippocratic Corpus" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Yapijakis, "Hippocrates of Kos, the Father of Clinical Medicine, and Asclepiades of Bithynia, the Father of Molecular Medicine", In Vivo, 2009-07-01, p. 507–514; King, "Hippocrates Now: The 'Father of Medicine' in the Internet Age", Bloomsbury Academic, 2020; King, "Hippocrates Now: The 'Father of Medicine' in the Internet Age", Bloomsbury Academic, 2020; Tsiompanou, "Hippocrates: timeless still", Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, July 2013, p. 288–292; Tsiompanou, "Hippocrates: timeless still", Journal of the Royal Society o en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hippocratic Corpus" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: King, "Hippocrates Now: The 'Father of Medicine' in the Internet Age", Bloomsbury Academic, 2020; Grammaticos, "Useful known and unknown views of the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates and his teacher Democritus", Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2008, p. 2–4; Tsiompanou, "Hippocrates: timeless still", Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, July 2013, p. 288–292; Tsiompanou, "Hippocrates: timeless still", Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, July 2013, p. 288–292; "The medical School of Cos, Hippocratic Medicine" (we en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hippocratic Corpus" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: . (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hippocratic Corpus" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jones 1923, p. lvi; .; . (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hippocratic Corpus" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: .; . (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hippocratic Corpus" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bynum, "A Little History of Science", Yale University Press, 2012; Bynum, "A Little History of Science", Yale University Press, 2012 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Effie L. Poulakou-Rebelakou, "“I will not cut, even for the stone”: origins of urology in the hippocratic collection", International braz j urol (2015), doi:10.1590/s1677-5538.ibju.2015.01.05. OpenAlex metadata CC0; paper not read. doi.org
- Wikipedia, "Hippocratic Corpus" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ""I will not cut, even for the stone": origins of urology in the Hippocratic Collection", International Brazilian Journal of Urology, February 2015, p. 26–9 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hippocratic Corpus" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ""I will not cut, even for the stone": origins of urology in the Hippocratic Collection", International Brazilian Journal of Urology, February 2015, p. 26–9; ""I will not cut, even for the stone": origins of urology in the Hippocratic Collection", International Brazilian Journal of Urology, February 2015, p. 26–9 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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