... can still choose to swear the Hippocratic oath. This oath was an attempt to place doctors on a higher footing than other healers and set them apart as specialists. Also medical ethics are still based on the Hippocratic Oath, which shows that Hippocrates is still important today. The Hippocratic Corpus is a collection of medical books that doctors used for centuries. Hippocrates may not have written all of these books and historians simply cannot tell who wrote them. However, this collection is important because it is the first detailed list of symptoms and treatments. Doctors continued to use the theories of Hippocrates as the basis of their own work for hundreds of years, which is an important reason why Hippocrates is still considered to be one of the most important people in the history of medicine. Hippocrates saw the healthy body as being in balance; he thought that illness was an imbalance ...

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