"I must abide by my oath and remain loyal. I must respect the teacher who taught me medical skills like a parent. I must teach medicine to my son, the teacher's son, and my disciples with all my heart. Knowledge. I will do my best to take medical measures that I think will benefit the patient without causing pain or harm to the patient. I will not give poison to anyone, and I will never authorize others to use it.

I must practice medicine and live a clean life. No matter who I enter, I only do it to treat illnesses, do not do whatever I want, do not accept bribes, and do not seduce the opposite sex. I will never reveal anything I see or hear about my private life.”

The author of this medical code is Hippocrates. In the middle of the 20th century, the World Medical Association Congress formulated an international code of ethics for medical personnel.

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Hippocrates regarded disease as a developing phenomenon. What doctors should treat is not only the disease but the patient, thus changing the traditional medical practice at that time. Concepts based on magic and religion. He advocated paying attention to the impact of the patient's personality characteristics, environmental factors and lifestyle on the disease in treatment.

Hippocrates attached great importance to hygienic dietary therapy, but he also did not ignore drug treatment, paying special attention to symptomatic treatment and prevention of disease. He is very knowledgeable about bones, joints, muscles, etc.

In order to resist the fallacy that diseases are given by God, Hippocrates worked hard to explore the characteristics of human body and the causes of diseases. After long-term research, he finally proposed the theory of humors.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Hippocrates