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The hippocratic writings introduced patient confidentiality, which is still in use today. This was under the Hippocratic Oath and other treatises, which meant that people were to record their findings and methods used, to be passed down.

Other hippocratic writings associated personality traits with the relative abundance of the four humours in the body: phlegm, yellow bile, black bile, and blood, and was a major influence on Galen and later on medieval medicine.

The Hippocratic Corpus is a collection of about sixty treatises, most written between 430 BCCenturies: 6th century BC 5th century BC 4th century BC Decades: 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC Years: 435 BC 434 BC 433 BC 432 BC 431 BC 430 BC 429 BC 428 BC 427 BC 426 BC 425 BC Events Athens suff and AD 200 . They are actually a group of texts written by several different people holding several different viewpoints erroneously grouped under the name of Hippocrates, perhaps at the Library of AlexandriaThe Royal Library of Alexandria was once the largest in the Mediterranean world. It is usually assumed to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ptolemy II of Egypt after his father had set up the Temple of the Muses. None of the texts included in the Corpus can be considered to have been written by Hippocrates himself, and one of them at least was written by his son-in-law Polybus. The best known of the Hippocratic writings is the Hippocratic Oath; however, this text was most likely not written by Hippocrates himself. A famous, time-honoured medical rule ascribed to Hippocrates is Primum non nocerePrimum non nocere is a Latin phrase that means "First, do no harm. The phrase is sometimes recorded as primum nil nocere . It is one of the principal precepts all medical students are taught in medical school. It reminds a physician that he or she must co ("first, do no harm"); another one is Ars longa, uita breuis ("art is long, and life short").

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• Aphorisms
• Instruments Of Reduction
• Of The Epidemics
• On Airs, Waters, And Places
• On Ancient MedicineA tretise on medicine, written roughly 400 BC by Hippocrates. The full text is.
• On Fistulae
• On FractureA fractured bone in a living person is treated by immobilization with a plaster or fiberglass cast, and in some cases surgical nails, screws, plates and wires to supplement a cast. By allowing only limited movement, fixation helps preserve anatomical aligs
• On Hemorrhoids
• On Injuries Of The Head
• On Regimen In Acute Diseases
• On The Articulations
• On The Sacred Disease
• On The Surgery
• On Ulcers
• The Book Of Prognostics
• The Law
• The Oath