1. hippocrates - Noun
2. Hippocrates - Proper noun
A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague. Marianne Moore
As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client. Hyman G. Rickover
From the time when Guldberg and Waage gave quantitative form to the speculations of the physicist Berthollet, a clear conception of chemical equilibrium, in sharp contrast to an anthropomorphic theory of affinity dating back to Hippocrates and Barchausen, has yielded rich and abundant fruit. J. R. Partington
A medical history of humanity (1997) pp 106–34 Most of the writings of Galen and Hippocrates were lost to the West, with the summaries and compendia of St. Isidore of Seville being the primary channel for transmitting Greek medical ideas. Source: Internet
Andreas Sofroniou, Moral Philosophy, from Hippocrates to the 21st Aeon, page 197. "Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress (Popper 1963, p.69). Source: Internet
As early as the 4th century BC, Greek physician Hippocrates theorized that mental disorders had physical rather than supernatural causes. Source: Internet