{"id":18769,"date":"2022-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=18769"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:48:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:48:06","slug":"did-hippocrates-write-the-hippocratic-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/2022\/09\/29\/did-hippocrates-write-the-hippocratic-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Hippocrates write the Hippocratic Oath?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q&A<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

Did Hippocrates write the Hippocratic Oath?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
\u2022 <\/span>SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

A perk of being the \u2018father of western medicine\u2019 was that he got the credit on a lot of texts <\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>LONG ANSWER<\/span> <\/h5>\n\n
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DOCTORING THE HISTORY <\/strong>A bust of Hippocrates, a medical pioneer but no originator of the written oath<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates took medicine to a new level, espousing reason and research over the supernatural and magic. (That didn\u2019t stop him tasting patients\u2019 earwax during the diagnosis, of course.) Moreover, he implemented high standards of ethical practice and demanded his followers do the same, hence the Hippocratic Oath: a code of conduct from c400 BC for a doctor\u2019s behaviour.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

In truth, there is little chance that he wrote it himself. And while it is a testament to his influence that medical professionals still take the oath almost 2,500 years later, it is a much-altered text. The oath is one of 60 medical texts, known as the Hippocratic Corpus, attributed to Hippocrates. He didn\u2019t write any of them. <\/p>\n\n

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