Hippocraticadj.

1617 W. Hamond tr. A. Paré Method curing Wounds xv. 95 If I haue herein followed the Hippocratick Doctrine [Fr. la doctrine Hippocratique], which is alwayes found true and stable, I perswade my self to haue done well.

1669 R. Russell tr. J. Béguin Tyrocinium Chymicum i. ii. 23 They are only as it were the Shells or Coverings of the said principles, and are destitute of all Hyppocratick virtue [L. omnique δυνάμει Hippocratica destituta].

1730 T. Fuller Exanthematologia Ep. Ded. p. iii The Hippocratic Physic was under a Cloud; was disregarded, and almost forgot; till about Six Hundred Years after him, a glorious bright Star appeared (the illustrious Galen).

1771 C. R. Hopson tr. J. G. Zimmermann Treat. Dysentery v. 85 Dr. Moehrlin in the Hippocratic method, stood still without doing any thing.

1826 Lancet 9 Dec. 312/1 In the north of Italy, the contrastimulist doctrine is the most prevalent, whilst in the South the Hippocratic, or the expectant system, is in the ascendency.

1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 508 The Hippocratic rule, that the amount of food and exercise must be balanced.

1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece ix. 279 These enquiries belong to the history of medicine, and must be based on the Hippocratic writings.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 922/1 The anatomy of the Hippocratic school is..fanciful and imaginary in often substituting mere supposition and assertion for what ought to be matter of fact.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 15 July Abstracts 16/1 Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy in the most extreme form includes the formation of Hippocratic fingers, synovitis with articular effusions, [etc.].

2007 V. Smith Clean iii. 95 In Hippocratic medicine long life and carefully planned personal health care for the individual was categorized under the name of ‘dietetics’, from the word diaita, meaning ‘daily way of life’.

1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Ess. Pathol. Brain x. 85 This kinde of Atrophie, differs in this, from other hectical wasting, which happens from the vice of the blood, because in this latter, an hippocratick or wanish face [L. facies Hippocratica], is the chief signe of the Disease, in that first mention'd, the countenance, and aspect, show little or nothing of evill.

1714 C. J. Spregnell tr. J. C. Gottwald Descr. Plague in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 120 Succeeded by..Lethargy, a dismal Hippocratic Face, staring Eyes.

1772 P. Hanly in Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 132 With a sharp pinched-up nose, hippocratic countenance.

1832 J. W. Sterling tr. Rep. Cholera-Morbus 15 According to the saying of almost all observers, the face of cholerics, differing but little from the hippocratic face, is so highly characteristic, that this sign would of itself suffice for the diagnosis of the disease.

1880 Internat. Rev. 8 372 The absolutist régime there shows a Hippocratic visage.

1909 Science 23 July 99/1 The pain continues in paroxysms often so severe as to cause the peculiar Hippocratic facies, ‘la face vulteuse’ of the French.

1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 12/1 The facies were hippocratic in appearance.

2001 H. Ellis Hist. Surg. (2002) 22/1 Perhaps the best known of his clinical descriptions is that of the patient dying of infection, which we still term the Hippocratic Facies.

a1626 F. Bacon Catal. Astringents in Baconiana (1679) 165 Hypocratic Wines..made of austere Materials.

1746 R. James Mod. Pract. Physic II. 245 A draught of hippocratic wine prepared of aromatics, as orange and lemon peels, mace, cloves, cardamoms, and sugar, affords great relief [from colic].

1908 Med. Times (N.Y.) Nov. 334/1 He states that a bath and the use of the juice of sweet almonds with Hippocratic wine relieved the pains but that they returned as soon as the bath was stopped.

2014 J. P. Rhind Fragrance + Wellbeing i. iv. 98 Hippocrates..invented aromatised wine—Hippocratic wine or vinum absinthium—from which vermouth is descended.

1586 T. Newton in tr. Olde Mans Dietarie sig. D2 I haue thought very conuenient..to annexe hereunto a brief and compendious Abstract of a Phisitions duetie, and of such pointes as by Conscience and Oath are lyable vnto his charge and function. The which I haue suffered here to passe abroad into y^e world vnder the name and title of Hippocrates Oath.]

1747 J. Barker Ess. Agreem. Anc. & Mod. Physicians Ded. p. v By the Hippocratic Oath, a Physician is bound to honour the Master who has instructed him in his Art.

1872 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 June 631/2 Medical men have been in general true to their Hippocratic oath.

1988 E. Segal Doctors xxiv. 372 He deludes himself that taking the Hippocratic Oath is tantamount to baptism.

2010 R. Skloot Immortal Life Henrietta Lacks (2011) xxvi. 241 The Hippocratic Oath, which most doctors take when graduating from medical school, says that being a physician requires the promise of confidentiality because without it, patients would never disclose the deeply personal information needed to make medical diagnoses.