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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek physician who is associated with a body of influential writings that emphasized natural rather than supernatural causation and the role of nutrition and the environment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 b. c.
- noun a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.
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- proper noun A Greek
physician , circa 5th century BC, sometimes called the "father of medicine."
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- noun medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC)
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Examples
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For instance: First, as in Hippocrates, do no harm.
John Leonard on Dale Peck and Responsible Book Reviewing 2008
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For instance: First, as in Hippocrates, do no harm.
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Jardin des Plantes, who has been called the Hippocrates of magnetism, has left the following account of Mesmer's experiments:
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Following the idea of Hippocrates, he seeks the cause of disease in the change of the fundamental humours (humoral pathology).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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-- Do you know (with great awe) there are dungeons called Hippocrates 'Sleeves, the walls of which slope like the inside of a funnel tapering to a point, so that those who are put inside them can neither lie, sit, nor stand?
Jacques Bonneval Anne Manning 1843
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Another singularity presents itself in this species, which is, a deep pouch-like appendage beneath the throat, in shape not unlike what is called Hippocrates's sleeve, or rather a jelly bag.
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) Arthur Phillip 1776
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Starting at the time of Hippocrates, which is to say around 450 BC, until the early 19th century, the most commonly held view of human well being among physicians was referred to as
Chattanooga Pulse 2010
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Hippocrates, that is, to lose his own face, and look like some of his near relations; for he maintained not his proper countenance, but looked like his uncle, the lines of whose face lay deep and invisible in his healthful visage before: for as from our beginning we run through variety of looks, before we come to consistent and settled faces; so before our end, by sick and languishing alterations, we put on new visages: and in our retreat to earth, may fall upon such looks which from community of seminal originals were before latent in us.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878
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And the contrary to this is the facies Hippocratica, or countenance so well described by Hippocrates, which is pale, cold, and shrunk; all which are owing to the inactivity of the secerning vessels, the paleness from there being less red blood passing through the capillaries, the coldness of the skin from there being less secretion of perspirable matter, and the shrunk appearance from there being less mucus secreted into the cells of the cellular membrane.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Many ancient physicians such as Hippocrates, and even medical practitioners, from modern times are advocating it.
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