2015/02/01 by Effie Poulakou‐Rebelakou, A. Rempelakos, Costas Tsiamis +1 · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · #History of Medicine Studies #History of Medical Practice #Medical History and Innovations #Hippocratic Oath #Medicine #Classics #History
paper · pdf · doi:10.1590/s1677-5538.ibju.2015.01.05
openalex publication_date 2015/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
The Hippocratic Collection, including the most of ancient Greek medicine, remains still interesting, despite the recent advances that transformed definitely the urological healing methods. Considering the patient as a unique psycho-somatic entity and avoiding high risk surgical manipulations were the leading principles dictating the everyday practice. Contemporary physicians can still learn from the clinical observations in times of complete absence of laboratory or imaging aid, from the prognostic thoughts, the ethics, and the philosophical concepts, represented by the Hippocratic writings, tracing into them the roots of Rational Medicine in general and Urology in particular.