The article is dedicated to the description of origins medical terminology. A brief historical note on earliest written sources that have come down us starting with Egyptian treatises in hieroglyphs papyrus given. contribution development terminology such great scientists and philosophers antiquity as Alcmaeon Croton, Homer, Aristotle, Hippocrates followers his school, Hippocratics, considered....

This article examines the process by which the London physician Thomas Sydenham (1624-89) rose to fame as the English Hippocrates in the late seventeenth century. It provides a survey of the evidence for the establishment of Sydenham's reputation from his own writings, his professional relations, and the writings of his supporters and detractors. These sources reveal that in the first decades o...

ibn abi sadiq neishaboori  was the iranian philosopher and medical scientist in the fifth century ah. in addition to writing a number of books in traditional medicine, he wrote commentary explanations on important books of famous greek and roman physicians, hippocrates and galen. because of this, he was called hippocrates the second.ibn abi sadiqwas the student of avicennaand the teacher of jor...

the new Oxford historians of the 1840s and 1850s. Sudhoff's characterization of his own place as a (or the) medical historian bears comparison with that of Treitschke, Diels, or Wilamowitz, and with the aims (and limitations) of Wilhelmian scholarship in general. Without this wider intellectual context one cannot see properly the development of medical history as a specific historical disciplin...

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book hippocrates in context papers read at the xith international hippocrates colloquium university of newcastle upon tyne 27 31 august 2002 . It is...

Nearly 2500 years ago, Hippocrates kicked off a revolution in healthcare by calling for the careful collection and recording of evidence about patients and their illnesses. This call—which first introduced the goal of sharing data among physicians to provide the best care possible for patients—established a foundation for the evolution of modern healthcare. Although 25 centuries have passed sin...

Thirty years ago, H. Flashar discussed the introduction to an anonymous commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The text contains an interesting picture of Hippocrates äs a culture hero, who saved suffering humanity by the introduction of systematic medicine. The first section of this introduction oifers some complicated problems. It ends with an extremely long and difficult sentence, which...

How refreshing it was to read Ken Walker’s article. He has the courage to speak out on a subject from which most of us shy away. The major concern of physicians since the time of Hippocrates has been to help prevent pain and suffering; the concept of saving lives at all costs is a modern aberration. In the time of Hippocrates, deformed or malformed babies were put out on the hillside to perish....