Hippocrates.ppt
- 2. HIPPOCRATES
- 3. • Hippocrates is perhaps history's most famous physician. • By rejecting superstition in favor of scientific observation, by classifying diseases, and by creating a set of moral and professional standards for physicians, he earned the title of 'Father of Medicine.' The Father of Modern Medicine
- 4. PERSONAL LIFE Hippocrates lived between 430 and 370 B.C. He was born on the island of Cos, Greece. He had been taught medicine by his father Heracleides as well as by the most famous teachers of that time.
- 5. Hippocrates made his career as a house- to-house physician. He had founded the Coyan Medical School that later on competed with the Knidean Medical School. For a long time he practiced in Thrace and died in old age in Larissa in Thessaly.
- 6. HIS WORK Hippocrates wrote some seventy books which is widely known as the Hippocratic Corpus. During his era medicine became a science and the profession had to be underpinned with logic and theory. The human body was thought to consist of four humors - yellow bile, blood, phlegm, and black bile. They were characterized by the same properties - dry, hot, wet and cold as the four elements - fire, air, water, and earth.
- 7. One generalized and of course incorrect theory was that disease was due to an imbalance of the fluid portions of the body. Hippocrates studied physiology, anatomy and evident, immediate and obscure causes of disease. He observed his patients and made his conclusions by constantly understanding the symptom changes and made a note of them
- 8. Of his many writings two of the best were Airs, Waters and Places - which is a description of the influence of the environment on health and disease. Regimen – which explains the importance of exercise, hygiene and elimination
- 9. • He also gave the world the Hippocratic Oath, a code of ethics for physicians which is still taken by graduates at many modern medical schools.