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The Hippocrates Project is a program of the New York University Medical Center which works with modern technologies to "enhance the learning process". It was established in 1987, presumably named after the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates.

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Hippocrates

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Hippocrates of Kos (/hɪˈpɒkrətiːz/, Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, translit. Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a...

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The Hippocrates Project

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The Hippocrates Project is a program of the New York University Medical Center which works with modern technologies to "enhance the learning process"...

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Hippocratic Corpus

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associated with the physician Hippocrates and his teachings. The Hippocratic Corpus covers many diverse aspects of medicine, from Hippocrates' medical theories...

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Mystery Men

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Murphy and the Big Apple Band Universal delayed the film's release one week to avoid competing with the opening of The Blair Witch Project. In its opening...

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Timbuktu Manuscripts

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individuals (such as Plato, Hippocrates, and Avicenna) as well as reproduced a "twenty-eight volume Arabic language dictionary called The Mukham, written by an...

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Antikythera mechanism

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The Antikythera mechanism (/ˌæntɪˈkɪθɪərə/ AN-tih-KIH-ther-ə) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System), described as the oldest...

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Aretaeus of Cappadocia

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followed for the most part the method of Hippocrates, but he paid less attention to what have been styled "the natural actions" of the system; and, contrary...

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Melancholia

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notional fluid known as "black bile", which was commonly linked to the spleen. Hippocrates and other ancient physicians described melancholia as a distinct...

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Medicine in the medieval Islamic world

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including the major traditions of Hippocrates, Galen and Dioscorides. During the post-classical era, Middle Eastern medicine was the most advanced in the world...

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History of surgery

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the Greeks, the Mayans, Indians and the Aztecs. In Greece, bloodletting was in use around the time of Hippocrates, who mentions bloodletting but in general...

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On the Sacred Disease

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character." The author, putatively Hippocrates, comments on the "sacred" disease, declaring that it is no more sacred than other diseases. He stresses the importance...

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Cervix

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cavity. The human cervix has been documented anatomically since at least the time of Hippocrates, over 2,000 years ago[citation needed]. The cervix is...

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Euclid

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of Cnidus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus. With Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga, Euclid is generally considered among the greatest mathematicians...

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Unani medicine

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referring to the fact that the Perso-Arabic system of medicine was based on the teachings of the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen. The Hellenistic...

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Miasma theory

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of food. The miasma theory was advanced by Hippocrates in the fourth century B.C. and accepted from ancient times in Europe and China. The theory was...

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Embryology

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to fetal development. Hippocrates also claimed that the flesh differentiates into different organs of the body, and Hippocrates saw as analogous an experiment...

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Alcmaeonidae

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Hippocrates and another Cleisthenes, this one the reformer of Athenian democracy. Hippocrates' daughter was Agariste, the mother of Pericles. The Alcmaeonid...

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Far side of the Moon

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Hayn (crater) Hegu (crater) Hertzsprung (crater) H. G. Wells (crater) Hippocrates (lunar crater) Houzeau (crater) Icarus (crater) Ioffe (crater) Izsak...

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Galen

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148, leaving Galen independently wealthy at the age of 19. He then followed the advice he found in Hippocrates' teaching and traveled and studied widely...

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Environmental determinism

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the character of surrounding peoples. Swift and twisting rivers made people "greedy, uncouth, and warlike". The ancient Greek philosopher Hippocrates...

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Neuropsychology

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by the heart." Hippocrates viewed the brain as the seat of the soul. He drew a connection between the brain and behaviors of the body, writing: "The brain...

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Cirrhosis

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the United States, more men die of cirrhosis than women. The first known description of the condition is by Hippocrates in the fifth century BCE. The...

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Clitoris

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albaratha or virga ("rod") and Colombo's calling it the sweetness of Venus, Hippocrates used the term columella ("little pillar"), and Albucasis, an Arabic...

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Pulmonary circulation

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Several figures such as Hippocrates and al-Nafis receive credit for accurately predicting or developing specific elements of the modern model of pulmonary...

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Necrotizing fasciitis

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and is rare in children. It has been described at least since the time of Hippocrates. The term "necrotizing fasciitis" first came into use in 1952. Symptoms...

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The Anatomy of Melancholy

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demonology. Much of the book quotes ancient and medieval medical authorities, beginning with Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen. Hence the Anatomy is filled...

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