Hippocrates and the Nineteenth-century French medicine.
- Author:
In Sok YEO
1
Author Information
1. Department of Medical History Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article ; Biography ; English Abstract ; Historical Article
- Keywords:
Hippocrates;
Ninetenth Century;
French Medicine
- MeSH:
English Abstract;
France;
History of Medicine, 19th Cent.;
History of Medicine, Ancient;
*Medicine;
Philosophy, Medical/*history
- From:Korean Journal of Medical History
2003;12(2):167-178
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, has been represented in many ways throughout the history of medicine. His influence on later medicine took different forms from one epoch to another. Hippocrates' medical doctrine was quite influential until Renaissance period, and with the arrival of modern medicine, the method or the spirit of Hippocrates had been valued more highly than his medical doctrine. Nineteenth century French medicine shows us how the influence of Hippocrates is still vivid even in the nineteenth century. Hippocrates, as the author of the Ai Wate Places became the founder of environmental medicine with the flourishing of meteorological medicine. And in the hands of medical ideologues he also became an proclaimer of the ideology that stressed the correspondence between men, society and nature. Laennec represented Hippocrates as the true pioneer in Clinical Medicine to which he himself made a great contribution. These various images of Hippocrates show us the universal nature of his medicine.
