For physicians, the idea of swearing an oath to act ethically goes back to Hippocrates.

Medieval thinking on the etiology of disease showed the influence of Galen and of Hippocrates.

Like Hippocrates, physicians throughout history have recognized that the symptoms of normal sadness and depressive disorder were similar.

I suspect he never really said this, because we don't know what Hippocrates really said, but we do know for sure that one of the great Greek physicians said the following, and it has been recorded in one of the books attributed to Hippocrates, and the book is called Precepts.

Europe gave the world Hippocrates, da Vinci, Voltaire, Beethoven, Florence Nightingale, Dostoyevski, Nobel, John Lennon, and many others who have shaped world culture.

The great doctor played the same role in Armenian Medical Science as Hippocrates in Western, Galen in Roman, Ibn Sīnā in Arabic medicine.

Already the old Chinese and the Greek, Hippocrates, have actually published, documented, that T.B. can be diagnosed based on the volatiles exuding from patients.

The symptoms that Hippocrates associated with melancholic disorder aversion to food, despondency, sleeplessness, irritability, restlessness are remarkably similar to those contained in modern definitions of depressive disorder.

In Ancient Greece , according to Edward Kremers and Glenn Sonnedecker, before, during and after the time of Hippocrates there was a group of experts in medicinal plants.

When medicine became somewhat scientific, in about 450 BC, with Hippocrates and those boys, they tried to look for herbs, plants that would literally shake the bad spirits out.

Writing in the fifth century b.c., Hippocrates provided the first known definition of melancholia (what we now call depression ) as a distinct disorder If fear or sadness last for a long time it is melancholia.

For physicians, the idea of swearing an oath to act ethically goes back to Hippocrates. Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.