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Hippocrates is thought to be the first physician to reject supernatural causes in medicine.Hippocrates = medical practitioner regarded as the father of medicine (circa 460-377 BC)
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Underneath this was a card in a brass holder on which had been handwritten: Healer-in-Charge: Hippocrates Smethwyck.† (source)
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These ideas goback to Hippocrates.† (source)
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Hippocrates had his limits.† (source)
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For a moment I saw the world through his eyes, his intellect, his sweeping vision that took in Hippocrates, Pavlov, Freud, and Marie Curie, the discovery of streptomycin and penicillin, Landsteiner's blood groups; a vision that recalled the septic ward where he wooed Hema, and Theater 3 where he was the reluctant surgeon; a vision that recapitulated our birth and looked to the future, looked past his life to the end of mine and beyond.† (source)
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Thomas, have you given any thought to the Hippocrates Society?† (source)
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Even though the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen are said to have agreed that this operation would enhance the ability to use weapons, it is doubtful whether such operations were actually performed.† (source)Hippocrates = medical practitioner regarded as the father of medicine (circa 460-377 BC)
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It was an ordinary doctor's waiting room like any other: back on the left, by the window, a desk with an armchair, plus an easy chair for the patient; a reference library on both sides of the door to the adjacent office; on the right at the rear, near the desk and chairs, but separated from them by a folding screen, a chaise longue set at an angle and covered in oilcloth; in the same corner, a glass cupboard filled with instruments, facing a bust of Hippocrates in the near corner; on the right wall, just above the gas fireplace, an engraving of Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson; and a red carpet that covered almost the entire floor.† (source)
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You produce on me no effect with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-a-brac.† (source)
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It was a result which paralleled the oft-quoted observation of Hippocrates concerning physical pains.† (source)
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Hippocrates has even left directions how we should cut our nails; that is, even with the ends of the fingers, neither shorter nor longer.† (source)
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A canary yellow paper, relieved at the top by a garland of pale flowers, was puckered everywhere over the badly stretched canvas; white calico curtains with a red border hung crossways at the length of the window; and on the narrow mantelpiece a clock with a head of Hippocrates shone resplendent between two plate candlesticks under oval shades.† (source)
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Over the central bookcase was a bronze bust of Hippocrates, with which, according to some authorities, Dr. Heidegger was accustomed to hold consultations in all difficult cases of his practice.† (source)
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The one showed himself one of the familiars of that supreme Hippocrates whom Nature made for the creatures that she holds most dear[1] the other showed the contrary care,[2] with a shining and sharp sword, such that it caused me fear on the hither side of the stream.† (source)
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Hippocrates is a dream; Urania is a dream; Hermes, a thought.† (source)
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Orpheus I mark'd And Linus, Tully and moral Seneca, Euclid and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Galenus, Avicen, and him who made That commentary vast, Averroes.† (source)
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