JN+Medicine&Disease+Hippocrates

HIPPOCRATES AND HIS OATH **__Who was Hippocrates and what did he do?__** Hippocrates was an ancient Greek doctor and physician. He was born in 460 BC and he died in 370 BC, at the age of 90. He is often nicknamed "the Father of Medicine" because of his contributions to the field. He developed the first ever medical school, the Hippocratic School of Medicine. This was based in Greece, and was the first school for adults that wasn't a literature or philosophical school. He was also the first person to say that diseases were caught naturally, and he is widely regarded to be the greatest doctor/physician of the ancient times. He isn't the first physician ever though, as history suggests that an ancient Egypitan took up the job before him. Hippocrates is most famous for his oath, the Hippocratic Oath. This is an oath that he wrote himself and said upon his graduation. This is particularly special because it sets the basic guidelines for any aspiring doctor. All graduates of the Hippocratic School of Medicine had to repeat this oath to cement their desire and willingness to help any patient with their medical issues. The Oath has since been modified a lot, and is still repeated by graduates of medical school in some universities today. Here is the original version of the Hippocratic Oath: I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take witness to all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgement, the following oath and agreement: To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art, to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him, to look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art. I will perscribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgement and never do harm to anyone. I will not give a lethal drug to anyone and if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan, and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion. But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts. I will not cut for stone, even in patients in whom the disease is in manifest, I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in the art. In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves. All that may come to my knowledge is in the exercise of my profession or in the daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal. If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times, but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot. Today, some universities and colleges around the world still have their students say the Hippocratic Oath upon graduation. We have kept Hippocrates idea of a medical school. We still go by his basic guidelines for doctors. The guidelines in the Oath are not committing adultery or not abusing women or men's sexual rights, to leave an operation to the specialists if the doctor does not know what to do, to keep a patients medical information private, not to get extremely competetive with other doctors, to stay friends with them, and not to sabotage their business. The oath also suggests that Hippocrates advised strongly against euthanasia and abortions, and that a doctor should not attempt something that is beyond their ability.