Hippocrates

[hi-pok-ruh-teez]

noun

1. Father of Medicine, c460–c377 b.c., Greek physician.

Hippocrates

/ hɪˈpɒkrəˌtiːz /

noun

1. ?460–?377 _bc , Greek physician, commonly regarded as the father of medicine

Hippocrates

1. Greek physician who is credited with establishing the foundations of scientific medicine. He and his followers worked to distinguish medicine from superstition and magic beliefs by basing their treatment of illness on close observation and rational deduction.

Hippocrates

1. An ancient Greek physician (the “father of medicine”) who is credited with founding the study of medicine.

Other Word Forms

• Hippocratic adjective
• Hippocratical adjective

Example Sentences

For centuries, scientists have noticed that certain illnesses seem to pass from one generation to the next, a connection first noted by Hippocrates, who observed that some diseases "ran in families."

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Hippocrates used it to treat wounds, fever and skin sores.

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Finch and co-author Stanley Burstein, a historian at California State University, Los Angeles, pored over a major body of ancient medical writing by Hippocrates and his followers.

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If, like Hippocrates, we consider food and drugs as serving the same function, we can incorporate concepts of medicine into our eating habits.

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To make it weirder, the association that trained Johnson bases their ideas on the teachings of the Greek physician Hippocrates, who died in 370 B.C., and believed that women's wombs could "wander" through their bodies.

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