Hippocrates

How To Use Hippocrates In A Sentence

• The term hysteria was coined by Hippocrates, who thought that suffocation and madness arose in women whose uteri had become too light and dry from lack of sexual intercourse and, as a result, wandered upward, compressing the heart, lungs, and diaphragm. Kiwiblog
• Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Hippocrates 
• Significantly, Hippocrates was the only author in the medical canon to be appreciated even by the iconoclastic iatrochemists.
• It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. Hippocrates 
• Hippocrates was able to find the areas of lunes, certain crescent-shaped figures, using his theorem that the ratio of the areas of two circles is the same as the ratio of the squares of their radii.
• In Hippocrates it figures as an astringent herb, which may be infused in wine as a corroborant.
• People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe. Hippocrates 
• As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. Hippocrates 
• In the "Protagoras," the young Hippocrates, son of Apollodorus has come to Protagoras, "that mighty wise man," to learn the science and knowledge of human life. The Evolution of Modern Medicine
• Hippocrates is more closely followed in holistic healing programs like naturopathy; the theme is "do no harm" and "educate the client about the therapy".