Hippocrates: Father of Modern Medicine

  Hippocrates Throughout his existence Hippocrates traveled extensively at some point of Greece and Asia Minor coaching or training medici...

 

Hippocrates

Throughout his existence Hippocrates traveled extensively at some point of Greece and Asia Minor coaching or training medicine. He probably taught on the clinical faculty at Cos pretty frequently. Undoubtedly, Hippocrates become an ancient figure, and a remarkable doctor who exercised an everlasting have an impact on at the improvement of drugs and at the beliefs and ethics of a doctor.

 

Quotation

"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food." - Hippocrates

"It is important for a medical doctor to understand approximately nature, and be very keen to understand, if he goes to carry out any of his duties ... what guy is in terms of what he eats and drinks, and in terms of his conduct generally, and what is going to be the impact of every upon every individual. " - Hippocrates, On in which the 2 worlds meet: a holistic technique to medicine.

 

Early Life

Little is understood approximately the formative years of Hippocrates. Historians generally tend to agree that he became born across the 12 months 460 BC, at the Greek island of Cos (or Kos). Soranus of Ephesus, a second-century Greek gynecologist, and taken into consideration to be Hippocrates` first biographer, wrote approximately his existence however the contents of this biography and later lives have been both conventional or imaginative.

From the biographical accounting of Soranus: Hippocrates` father become Heraclides, a health practitioner, and his mom become Praxitela, daughter of Tizane. He discovered remedy from his father and grandfather, and studied different topics with Democritus and Gorgias. He became probable educated on the asklepieion of Kos, and additionally studied from the Thracian health practitioner Herodicus of Selymbria.

Other records may be located withinside the writings of Aristotle which date from the 4th century BC. Plato additionally mentions Hippocrates in   his dialogues: Potagonas, in which Plato describes Hippocrates as "Hippocrates of Kos, the Asclepiad," and Phaedrus, in which Plato indicates that "Hippocrates the Asclepiad" idea that a whole information of the character of the frame become essential for remedy.

 

Major accomplishments

• Considered to be the "Father of Medicine" and well-known for "Hippocratic Oath," Hippocrates revolutionized the exercise of drugs through moving western medicinal drug from the spiritual to the "rational." He believes docs need to examine signs and symptoms on a case-through-case basis, as an alternative of getting blanket reasons and / or therapies for every disease. He advanced the exercise of medical remark in 4 stages: diagnosis, prognosis, remark and treatment. He taught and practiced medicinal drug. Hippocrates become so respected that his teachings have been substantially taken, with out a widespread improvements of his techniques for a protracted time. He and his fans have been first to explain many sicknesses and scientific conditions.
• Hippocrates started the clinical examine of drugs, and severa scientific writings have survived that undergo his name, even though maximum of which suspected now no longer written through him. It is tough to split the statistics or myths from later memories to evaluate his accomplishments in medicinal drug. As time went on, reverence for the beyond needed to cope with new trends of clinical approach and discoveries. General know-how of his scientific writings would possibly have faded, however Hippocrates maintains to symbolize the humane and moral components of the scientific profession.

• He labeled ailments as acute, chronic, endemic and epidemic, and use phrases together with, "exacerbation, relapse, resolution, crisis, paroxysm, peak, and convalescence."

• He defined symptomatology, bodily findings, surgical remedy and analysis of thoracic empyema, regarding the chest hollow space lining.

• His teachings stay applicable to present-day college students of pulmonary remedy and surgery.

• He first documented chest physician and his findings and techniques, at the same time as crude, together with the usage of lead pipes to empty chest wall abscess, are nonetheless valid.

• The Hippocratic School of Medicine defined properly the illnesses of the human rectum and its remedy, notwithstanding the school`s negative principle of drugs on the time.

• Hemorrhoids, aleven though believed to be as a result of an extra of bile and phlegm, had been handled via way of means of Hippocratic physicians in a quite superior ways. Cautery and excision are defined withinside the Hippocratic Corpus, similarly to the favored techniques of ligating the hemorrhoids and drying them with a warm iron.

• Some essential principles of proctoscopy mentioned withinside the Corpus are nonetheless in use. For example, the makes use of of the rectal speculum, a not unusualplace clinical device, are discussed. This constitutes the earliest recorded connection with endoscopy.

 

 

The Hippocratic Corpus, a set of round seventy early clinical works (containing textbooks, lectures, notes and philosophical essays on numerous topics in medicine), is written in Ionic Greek that bears Hippocrates` name. The query whether or not Hippocrates changed into the writer of the corpus has now no longer been conclusively answered, however the volumes have been possibly produced through his college students and fans because of the kind of topics, writing patterns and obvious date of construction. Notable some of the treatises of the Corpus are The Hippocratic Oath (the maximum famous); The Book of Prognostics; On Regimen in Acute Diseases; Aphorisms; On Airs, Waters and Places; Instruments of Reduction; and On The Sacred Disease.

 

Timeline

(Little is thought approximately his real timeline besides his start and death, which might be additionally approximate dates.)

• 460 BC - Hippocrates became born at the island of Cos, Greece.

• 370 BC - Hippocrates died in Larissa, Thessaly.

 

Death

Hippocrates` real date of demise isn't known. It is thought that he surpassed away everywhere among eighty three and ninety years of age in Larissa, Thessaly. Some say he lived to be nicely over 100.