Hippocrates
The Four Humors
Doctors
Vocabulary
Fun Facts
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Where was Hippocrates born?

Greece

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Name the four humors

Blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm

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What is a doctor?

Someone who keeps you safe and healthy

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Symptom

  A physical or mental feature 

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How did Hippocrates find out symptoms?

He watched how the sick people acted.

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How many documents are associated with the Hippocratic Corpus?

About 60

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What humor represents spring and causes friendliness and activeness?

Blood

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How long do you have to go to medical school?

3-4 years

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Oath

A solemn promise

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Where is there a statue of Hippocrates?

Greece

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Where was the corpus assembled?

Alexandria, Egypt

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What humor represents summer and causes anger and madness?

Yellow bile

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What do you get after medical school?

A Doctor of Medicine degree

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Liver

A large organ 

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What did Hippocrates believe health was also about?

How people lived

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What does the Hippocratic Oath swear?

To do no harm

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What humor represents autumn and causes sadness?

Black bile

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What does a doctor have to do to become an official doctor?

Pass a test

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Diagnose

Identify the illness

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What is the Hippocratic face?

What a face looks like right before death.

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When was Hippocrates born?

About 460 BC

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What humor represents winter and causes relaxation?

Phlegm

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After the test, what do you get?

A license

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Imbalance

Lack of balance
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Hippocrates was the first physician to cure what?

Diabetes

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