Hippocrates Flashcards
What is Hippocrates acknowledged as?
The Father of Medicine.
Hippocrates believed in _______ causes of disease, and encouraged _______ to treat illness using _______ ________.
Natural
Doctors
Natural Methods
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
A promise made by doctors to obey rules of behaviour in their professional lives.
True or False?
The Hippocratic Oath is still taken by doctos today.
True. The Hippocratic Oath is taken by doctors today.
What is the Hippocratic Corpus?
A collection of medical books some written by Hippocrates or his followers.
What method did Hippocrates come up with that doctors still use today and what is it?
The clinical method of observation. This involves studying a patients symptoms to diagnose their illness and then treating them.
Who were the main medical books in Rome written by?
Hippocrates.
What did Hippocrates think illness was caused by?
Natural causes, such as imbalances of the four humours.
