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Hippocratic

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Hip·poc·ra·tes  (h-pkr-tz) Called "the Father of Medicine." 460?-377? b.c.
Greek physician who laid the foundations of scientific medicine by freeing medical study from the constraints of philosophical speculation and superstition. He is traditionally but inaccurately considered the author of the Hippocratic oath.
Hippo·cratic (hp-krtk) adj.
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Adj.1.Hippocratic - of or relating to Hippocrates or the school of medicine that took his name
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His notes already made a formidable range of volumes, but the crowning task would be to condense these voluminous still-accumulating results and bring them, like the earlier vintage of Hippocratic books, to fit a little shelf.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Coupled with this distortion of the face, this Hippocratic smile, or 'risus sardonicus,' as the old writers called it, what conclusion would it suggest to your mind?
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