The earliest references to cancer , in 2600bc or so by imhotep , an ancient egyptian physician , then by hippocrates and galen , were simple clinical descriptions : swelling , ulceration , death .
Two different humours : renaissance medical theory ( inherited from classical medical treatises and the practice of hippocrates and galen ) held that the human body was governed by four different ' humours ' : blood , black bile , yellow bile , and phlegm .
It is as if hippocrates understood that , of all the power a physician has , much of it enormously positive and beneficial , one item needs most to be checked : the almost unprecedented capacity to harm a person , legally .
For thousands of years , beginning with philosophers like hippocrates , socrates and plato , fasting was recommended for health reasons .
从希波克拉底、苏格拉底、柏拉图等哲学家以来的几千年认为禁食是保持健康的主要原因。
Or those who argue that , just as our surgeon knows more about brain surgery than hippocrates , we can now have a much more sophisticated understanding of what makes us happy ?
When hippocrates formulated his oath for doctors , which explicitly rules out active killing , most other greek doctors and thinkers disagreed with his ban .
当希波克拉底为医生制定信条的时候,曾明确禁止安乐死,而多数其他希腊医生和思想家都不赞成这一禁令。
Many historical texts , such as the kama sutra , spoke about female " semen " , as did writers , including the greek physician hippocrates .