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Hippocratic   /hɪpəkrˈætɪk/   Listen
Hippocratic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to Hippocrates or the school of medicine that took his name.



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"Hippocratic" Quotes from Famous Books



... In the Hippocratic treatise, Of Generation, it is stated that, while woman has less pleasure in coitus than man, her pleasure lasts longer. (Oeuvres d'Hippocrate, edition Littre, ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... I grunted. "So next I meet a guy who is supposed to know all the answers; a man dedicated to the public welfare, medicine, and the ideal of Service. A man sworn to the Hippocratic Oath. Or," I went on bitterly, "is it ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith

... have an amanuensis, and she hers, to be one. He told her in the billy-cooing of their courtship that "his notes made a formidable range of volumes, but the crowning task would be to condense these voluminous, still accumulating results, and bring them, like the earlier vintage of Hippocratic books, to fit a little shelf." Dorothea was altogether captivated by the wide embrace of this conception. Here was something beyond the shallows of ladies' school literature. Here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot



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