BIO Sphere -Leveled Reading- ATI RE VE C -Resources- K R A A A A L L L L C C C -Activities- C D L R W O Editable Presentation hosted on Google Slides. Click to Download. Early Life Personality & Characteristics ● Hippocrates was born in 460 BC on the ● Hippocrates was smart and practical. island of Kos in Ancient Greece. Hippocrates ● He was known for his good discipline and Medical Pioneer ● His family was rich and he had a good was very professional. education. ● His father trained him to be a doctor. Bust of Hippocrates Bust of Hippocrates Life Story Notable & Quotable Life Story ● Hippocrates was well known as a ● The oldest writings on medicine are called doctor but also for his teaching. “A wise man should consider the Hippocratic Corpus. Hippocrates’s students wrote most of this. ● He opened his own school for medicine in Kos. that health is the greatest of ● The Ancient Greeks didn’t agree with cutting up the human body and so they He was the first person to make ● human blessings, and learn how didn’t know much about how the body medicine something you could study worked. on its own. Usually, it was considered by his own thought to derive a part of philosophy or religion. Depiction of Hippocrates ● Hippocrates was the first person to say Hippocratic Oath examining a patient that diseases had natural causes and not benefit from his illnesses.” caused by the gods. Life Story Late Life Notable & Quotable ● The most famous part of the Hippocratic ● We don’t know much about Corpus is the Hippocratic Oath. Hippocrates’s later life and death. He practiced and taught medicine all his “There are in fact two things, science ● This said that doctors should always be life. calm, serious, look professional, and be and opinion; the former begets honest, and carefully observant. ● Historians think that he died in Larissa, Greece around 375 BC. knowledge, the latter ignorance.” Painting of Hippocrates lecturing Hippocratic Oath What do you think he means? Notable & Quotable Legacy Legacy ● Some of what we know about Hippocrates is ● He came up with the clinical method used by fact, but some is only legend. doctors today: diagnosis, treatment, and “Life is short, art long, prevention. ● Plato and Aristotle, who lived at the same opportunity fleeting, experience time as him, mentioned him in their writings. ● His categorization of illnesses as acute, chronic, endemic and epidemic is also still used today. ● Hippocrates is often called the “Father of treacherous, judgment difficult.” Medicine”. ● He also created the terms like, “exacerbate”, “relapse”, and “crisis”. Tree of Hippocrates on Kos ● The Hippocratic Oath is still taken by medical Tree of Hippocrates on Kos school graduates as they prepare to become What does this mean to you? doctors. “Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.” Hippocrates (460-370 BC) Ancient Greece He was... - given the nickname the “Father of Medicine” - the developer of the clinical practice of diagnosing, treating and preventing - credited with creating the Hippocratic Oath which is still taken by physicians #physician #medicine #Greece #surgery #HippocraticOath c Clark Creative Education HIPPOCRATES “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” c Clark Creative Education “A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.” - Hippocrates c Clark Creative Education Your Name BIO Sphere medicine health doctor exam surgery disease Hippocrates c Clark Creative Education.