How To Use Hippocrates In A Sentence
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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.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Hippocrates
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Significantly, Hippocrates was the only author in the medical canon to be appreciated even by the iconoclastic iatrochemists.
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It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. Hippocrates
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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.
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In Hippocrates it figures as an astringent herb, which may be infused in wine as a corroborant.
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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
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As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. Hippocrates
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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
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Hippocrates is more closely followed in holistic healing programs like naturopathy; the theme is "do no harm" and "educate the client about the therapy".
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Hippocrates
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Hippocrates
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. Hippocrates
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. Hippocrates
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Hippocrates
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Walking is man's best medicine. Hippocrates
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For some young children bladder control is more difficult to achieve at night - enuresis, commonly known as bed-wetting, has been discussed by physicians since the days of Galen and Hippocrates.
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Its history can be traced to the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, in ancient Greece.
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Galen's views of disease in general are those of Hippocrates, but he introduces many refinements and subdivisions according to the predominance of the four humors, the harmonious combination of which means health, or eucrasia, while their perversion or improper combination leads to dyscrasia, or ill health.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine
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Hippocrates, the “father of medicine” whose healing oath is revered to this day, used the term hysteria to describe overwhelming fear, sometimes accompanied by unexplained physical symptoms or loss of self-control.
The Chemistry of Calm
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So when people asked me to research the impact of the nor'westers or the long cloudy periods of winter I went back to Hippocrates.
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Mithridates, who had made himself poison-proof, gave us the now forgotten word ‘mithridate’, for antidote; as from Hippocrates we derived ‘hipocras’, or ‘ypocras’, a word often occurring in our early poets, being a wine supposed to be mingled after his receipt.
English Past and Present
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Historians Hippocrates and Herodotus thought that the Amazons had to fight until they had scalped three enemies before they were permitted to mate.
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Some early doctors, notably Hippocrates, thought that diet was important.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. Hippocrates
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Galenists oppugn Paracelsus, he brags on the other side, he did more famous cures by this means, than all the Galenists in Europe, and calls himself a monarch; Galen, Hippocrates, infants, illiterate, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. Hippocrates
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Hippocrates was the father of the west medicine and the founder of the west medicine morals.
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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
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Omnia appetunt bonum, all creatures seek the best, and for their good as they hope, sub specie, in show at least, vel quia mori pulchrum putant (saith [2746] Hippocrates) vel quia putant inde se majoribus malis liberari, to be freed as they wish.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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While ethics in health care dates back at least to the times of Hippocrates, Sun Si Miao,1 and Ibn Sina (Avicenna),2 the field of “bioethics” did not emerge until after World War Two.
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Before continuing with the quote we should note that Hippocrates is trying to ‘square a lune’ by which he means to construct a square equal in area to the lune.
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In case the reader is wondering what Aristotle refers to with his phrase ‘quadrature by means of segments' then it is almost certain that he means the method of lunes of Hippocrates.
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Everything in excess is opposed by nature. Hippocrates
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The similia principle had a prior history in medicine, from Hippocrates in Ancient Greece -- who noted, for example, that recurrent vomiting could be treated with an emetic (such as ipecacuanha) that would be expected to make it worse -- to folk medicine. (
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The earliest undisputed description of the condition comes from Hippocrates, who used three words to describe the problem: echos, meaning sound; bombos, denoting buzzing; and psophos, indicating a slight sound.
The New Yorker
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One of the remedies Hippocrates used for pain and fevers was powder made from the bark and leaves of the willow tree.
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As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. Hippocrates
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Accordingly Ibn Daud takes pains to refute the most important of these phenomenalistic theories, that of Hippocrates and Galen.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
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For four years, students read the works of Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna on humoral theory, temperaments, the nature of man, fevers, and pulse.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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This was Claudius Galenus, commonly known as Galen, a man whose fame was destined to eclipse that of all other physicians of antiquity except Hippocrates, and whose doctrines were to have the same force in their field throughout the Middle Ages that the doctrines of Aristotle had for physical science.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
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In particular Simplicius quotes the writing on Eudemus on Antiphon's attempts to square the circle and also the attempts of Hippocrates when he squared certain lunes.
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For Hippocrates and Plato the mind was not limited to the brain; it encompassed as well the innards, or splanchna, held in the "cagelike" breast.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Anglo-Saxons, the lungs are inadequate to the task of depurating the superabundant blood, which is thrown upon them at the age of maturity, unless aided by an occasional blood-letting, active and abundant exercise of the muscles in the open air, and a nutritious diet, as advised by the American Hippocrates, Benjamin Rush.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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These should be boiled in two waters, of which the first will be made laxative, and the second, or thicker decoction, astringent, which fact was known to Hippocrates, who said "_jus caulis solvit cujus substantia stringit_.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Hippocrates says that the origin of men's sperm derives from the brain, and from the lungs and testicles of our parents, where the final decocture is made, and all the other limbs transmit their substance to this sperm by means of expiration, because there are no channels through which they might come to the sperm.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. Hippocrates
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. Hippocrates
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. Hippocrates
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A point of interest is that the windpipe, or trachea, is called "arteria," both by Aristotle and by Hippocrates ( "Anatomy," Littré, VIII, 539).
The Evolution of Modern Medicine
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Doctors Tourniquet and Lancelot retired in disgust, menacing something like a general pestilence, in vengeance of what they termed rebellion against the neglect of the aphorisms of Hippocrates.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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In acute diseases, Hippocrates advises detersive kneading, the douche, and the anointing of the body; those procedures which, combined, form part of the bath as prescribed for therapeutic purposes.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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Comparison of the uses of uroscopy by Hippocrates (400 BC) and Theophilus (700 AD) illustrates this transformation.
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The use of heat in the treatment of patients with joint instability dates back to ancient times, with Hippocrates describing the use of cauterization in unstable shoulders.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Hippocrates
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The former of these hath begotten two arts, both of prediction or prenotion; whereof the one is honoured with the inquiry of Aristotle, and the other of Hippocrates.
The Advancement of Learning
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates
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The human body, Hippocrates proposed, was composed of four cardinal fluids called humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Had Galen, Celsus, Hippocrates, and the other great scientists of old, known the use of the microscope, they would have made no such grave blunders as in the advocation of the theory that the arteries of the human body contain and carry air during life, instead of oxygenized blood only.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates
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Hippocrates is an amazing figure, both a father of scientific ethics and first articulator of the insight that frees humankind to discover the universe.
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The Anonymus Londinensis papyrus points to an ancient confusion about the historical Hippocrates' pathological doctrines.
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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
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For some young children bladder control is more difficult to achieve at night - enuresis, commonly known as bed-wetting, has been discussed by physicians since the days of Galen and Hippocrates.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. Hippocrates
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A point of interest is that the windpipe, or trachea, is called "arteria," both by Aristotle and by Hippocrates ( "Anatomy," Littre, VIII, 539).
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913
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It is said that Hippocrates (he of the Hippocratic Oath) brewed leaves from the willow tree to ease the pain of childbirth.
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Patria (saith Hippocrates) ob risum furere et insanire dicunt, his countrymen hold him mad because he laughs; [447] and therefore he desires him to advise all his friends at Rhodes, that they do not laugh too much, or be over sad.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm. Hippocrates
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ng Meeting 7 is available online at www.randi.org Bio: Fintan Steele, director of scientific education and communications at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, traces the history of personalized medicine from Hippocrates and humorism to ‘overhyped’ modern day incarnations.
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Meanwhile, the presence of Pietro d'Abano80 and Hippocrates reflects a special interest at Urbino in recondite principles of astrobiological medicine and its capacity to temper the constitutions of individuals.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Nearly 25 centuries ago, Hippocrates wrote that ‘a pleasant odour is essential in any girl, and can be obtained and maintained by using a mouthwash containing anise, dill seeds, myrrh and white wine’.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm. Hippocrates
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. Hippocrates
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While Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias placed the soul in the arche of the heart, Hippocrates and Plato located the powers of perception and cognition in the brain.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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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
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Hippocrates attributed ‘hysteria’ to a woman's uterus, and blamed ‘melancholia’ on black bile, which he attempted to treat with purgatives.
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Many doctors were itinerant wanderers - Hippocrates among them.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. Hippocrates
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. Hippocrates
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm. Hippocrates
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Hippocrates' writings displayed uroscopy used in examination of illness.
Uroscopy by Hippocrates and Theophilus
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. Hippocrates
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Hippocrates, widely known as the ‘father of medicine’, practiced fumigation with fragrancies, which had both therapeutic and aesthetic effect.
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Hippocrates believed that the essence of matter was found in the four primary elements: Fire, Water, Air and Earth.
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So when people asked me to research the impact of the nor'westers or the long cloudy periods of winter I went back to Hippocrates.
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During the same winter, Hippocrates the Lacedaemonian sailed from the Peloponnese with one Laconian, one Syracusan, and ten
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Hippocrates' book also included geometrical solutions to quadratic equations and included early methods of integration.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Hippocrates
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“In the course of explaining the opinion of the divine Hippocrates and Galen,” he wrote in a letter, “I happened to delineate the veins on a chart, thinking that thus I might be able easily to demonstrate what Hippocrates understood by the expression και ιειυ, for you know how much dissension and controversy on venesection was stirred up, even among the learned.”
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Thomas Sydenham, the seventeenth-century physician known as the ‘English Hippocrates’, wrote, ‘Disease is nothing else but an attempt of the body to rid itself of morbific matter’.
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity
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Hippocrates had once abstrusely opined that cancer was “best left untreated, since patients live longer that way.”
The Emperor of All Maladies
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To illustrate with one example, the work of Hippocrates on the quadrature of lunes is only known to us through Eudemus's History of Geometry.
