No one knows who first penned it. Just as medical textbooks have come a long way from Hippocrates' archaic writings, the modern versions of the oath veer far from the classical.

Through Hippocrates' example, medical practice was pointed in a new ... Centuries later, William Shakespeare incorporated the humors into his writings when describing human qualities.

Galen was influential for expanding on Hippocrates's theories of the four humours. His medical writings were very influential and his ideas and medical practices and methods remained in use for ...

long associated with Hippocrates, were written. These multi-authored medical writings, roughly a quarter of which concern the health and diseases of women, contain the first clear differentiation ...

But his writings barely mention willow. So why do we still believe the myth? Practically every history of aspirin tells you Hippocrates ... Celsus, another Roman medical writer, said warm willow ...

Kastalia Medrano is a Manhattan-based journalist whose writing has appeared ... Elsevier publishing Hippocrates lived in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. The medical texts he produced in ...

“We are taking seriously our pledge and commitment to the profession…,” said Rajesh, who led the oath-writing ... to current medical concerns. Modern interpretations of the Hippocratic ...

The School of Medicine's class of 2024 started a new tradition this year of writing and reciting their own Hippocratic oath ... As It Happens host Carol Off Medical student creates handbook ...