Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
According to Hippocrates, medicine was dependent on detailed observation of symptoms and health, prognosis, treatment of the patient, and reason to establish diagnosis. [11] While the Hippocratic Corpus was not written by Hippocrates himself, the compiled work of medical professionals all follow the same guidelines imposed by Hippocratic ...
Foods are classified according to the humoral theory. Food is palatable when hot, wet, dry, cold are in harmony, while food is unpalatable when these elements are imbalanced. Some foods produce good juices and others bad juices and often cooking and preparation of the foods can change or improve the juices of the foods.
In chapter 15 the author argues that whereas the proponents of humoral medicine see food purely as hot, cold, wet, or dry, human beings also possess a quality such as sweet or bitter. These qualities are the ones that cause serious harm to the body. In Chapter 16, the author presents a number of examples from common experience.
Hippocrates (460 BC – 377 BC) was a physician known as the "father of medicine", his nutritional advice was based on the presence of the four humors in the body. [18] Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician; his idea of a healthy diet consisted of balance and moderation of cereals, fruits, vegetables, dairy ...
The Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370 BC), to whom the oath is traditionally attributed. The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians.It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts.
Around 400 BC, Hippocrates, who recognized and was concerned with obesity, which may have been common in southern Europe at the time, [188] said, "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food." [190] The works that are still attributed to him, Corpus Hippocraticum, called for moderation and emphasized exercise. [188]
Vis medicatrix naturae (literally "the healing power of nature", and also known as natura medica) is the Latin rendering of the Greek Νόσων φύσεις ἰητροί ("Nature is the physician(s) of diseases"), a phrase attributed to Hippocrates. While the phrase is not actually attested in his corpus, [1] it nevertheless sums up one of ...
De Medicina is a 1st-century medical treatise by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a Roman encyclopedist and possibly (but not likely) a practicing physician. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia; only small parts still survive from sections on agriculture , military science , oratory , jurisprudence and ...