Influence of Hippocrates on medicine.

     Furthermore, Hippocrates devised the ‘Hippocratic Oath’ of which was a guideline which displayed the ethical promises doctors made when treating a patient. Further proving that Hippocrates made an incredible contribution to medicine, this Hippocratic Oath is still incorporated into medical practice today, and even new doctor still swears to it even today.

    Additionally, Hippocrates looked at the cause of the disease rather than the symptoms, which meant that Hippocrates was moving medicine forward. In discovering that religion alone didn’t hold all answer, Hippocrates saw that diseases came from natural causes; he also made the important link between thought and the brain, whereas it was previously believed that thought came from the heart. Another noticeable contribution that Hippocrates made, was  the ‘Theory of the Four Humours’, he wrote about this in his- Hippocratic Corpus; He believed that the body was made up of four components or more generally “four humours”: Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, and Black Bile. Hippocrates proposed the argument that when these four fluids were out of balance in the body disease occurred. In order for Hippocrates to spread his knowledge and let other doctors know of his work, was through his books which was written to coherently demonstrate the Ancient Greek medical knowledge, his collection of books was known as the ‘Hippocratic Collection’ This is a collection of sixty medical books telling the world of his discovering, it is still clear that even today we are still using and developing a selection of Hippocrates original methods.

      Overall, it is clear that Hippocrates served as a model for other doctors to emulate, his influences have even been as wide spread as today, highlighted by his written works and the Hippocratic Oath which are extremely significant in today’s society. Perhaps without Hippocrates, the world would have never surpassed the belief that illness was religion and consequently we would have never discovered the real causes of illness without Hippocrates. Despite the Theory of the Four Humours being ultimately incorrect, it still illustrated the new way of thinking towards medicine and therefore Hippocrates, in my opinion, made one of the biggest contributions to medicine through time.