Hippocratic Corpus

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The Hippocratic Corpus is a collection of ancient Greek medical texts traditionally attributed to Hippocrates and his followers, foundational to Western medicine’s early theories and clinical practice.

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instanceOf ancient Greek literature
collection of medical texts
medical treatise collection
approximateNumberOfWorks about 60
associatedWith Hippocratic medicine
Hippocratic school
containsWork Aphorisms
Epidemics
On Acute Diseases
On Airs, Waters, Places
On Ancient Medicine
On Decorum
On Diseases
On Fistulae
On Fractures
On Hemorrhoids
On Joints
On Prognostics
linked to: Prognostics

On Regimen
On Ulcers
On Wounds in the Head
On the Art
On the Nature of Man
On the Physician
On the Sacred Disease
The Law
The Oath
coreConcept clinical observation
humoral theory of four humors
natural causes of disease
prognosis
countryOfOrigin Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity
dateOfOrigin 4th century BCE
5th century BCE
describes dietetic regimens
environmental influences on health
epidemic diseases
fracture treatment
surgical techniques
symptoms and signs of diseases
field clinical medicine
humoral theory
medical ethics
medicine
genre medical literature
scientific prose
hasAlternativeName Corpus Hippocraticum
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus

Hippocratic Collection
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus
hasInfluencedConcept Hippocratic method of clinical case histories
professional ethics in medicine
hasModernEdition critical editions in Greek with translations
influenced Galenic medicine
Islamic Golden Age medicine
Western medical tradition
history of clinical observation
medieval European medicine
language Ancient Greek
preservedIn medieval manuscripts
rejects supernatural explanations of most diseases
studiedIn classics
history of medicine
timePeriod Classical Greece
traditionallyAttributedTo Hippocrates
writingSystem Greek alphabet

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Hippocratic medical tradition associatedWith Hippocratic Corpus
Hippocratic medical tradition ethicalText Hippocratic Oath
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus
Nightingale Pledge for nurses inspiredBy Hippocratic Oath
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus
Hippocrates knownFor Hippocratic Oath
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus
Hippocrates knownFor Hippocratic Corpus
Hippocrates notableWork Hippocratic Corpus
Al-Hawi usesSource Hippocratic writings
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus
Kitab al-Mu‘alajat al-Buqratiyya influencedBy Hippocratic corpus
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus
Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis influencedBy Hippocratic aphorisms
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus
Hippocratic Corpus hasAlternativeName Corpus Hippocraticum
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus
Hippocratic Corpus hasAlternativeName Hippocratic Collection
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus
On Airs, Waters, and Places partOf Hippocratic Corpus
On the Sacred Disease associatedWith Hippocratic Corpus
On the Sacred Disease partOf Hippocratic Corpus
Aphorisms partOf Hippocratic Corpus
Prognostics partOf Hippocratic Corpus
Prognostics relatedWork Aphorisms (Hippocratic treatise)
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus
Prognostics relatedWork Epidemics (Hippocratic treatise)
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus
Apollonius of Citium influencedBy Hippocratic Corpus
Dogmatic school of medicine influencedBy Hippocratic Corpus
work on simple drugs (adwiya mufrada) isInfluencedBy Greek medical sources
linked to: Hippocratic Corpus