ACTIVE VOCABULARY

Read and learn the following words:

medicineмедицина, лекарство

practice практика

practiseзаниматься врачебной деятельностью

drive out изгонять

plagueчума

quite совершенно, вполне

oathклятва

practitioner практикующий врач

physicianврач – терапевт

examine осматривать (пациента)

createсоздавать

basisоснова

experience опыт

free свободный, освобождать

superstitionпредрассудок

hate ненавидеть

diseaseболезнь

punishment наказание

diet диета

massage массаж

treatment лечение

drug лекарство

surgeon хирург

fracture перелом

trephineпроизводить трепанацию

skull череп

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TEXT

HIPPOCRATES – THE FATHER OF MEDICINE.

Hippocrates was born in Greece. He was the son of a doctor. Hip­pocrates studied medicine and then went to town where he practised the art of medicine2. It is known that he drove out plague from Ath­ens by lighting fires3 in the streets of the city. That is all we know of Hippocrates himself. But we have his writings which are called Hippo­cratic Collection. The Collection consists of more than one hundred books. Some of Hippocratic thoughts are quite modern4. The Collec­tion begins with the famous Oath5.

Hippocrates was known as an excellent practitioner and a teacher of medicine. This great physician taught his pupils to examine pa­tients very attentively and to give them quick help. He created medi­cine on the basis of experience6.

Hippocrates freed medicine from superstition7. He hated the idea that a disease was the punishment of gods.

Hippocrates paid much attention to diet8, gymnastics, massage and seabathing in treatment.

He knew how to use many drugs and was also a good surgeon. Hippocrates set fractures' and even trephined the skull. Aristotle, the famous philosopher, called him "Hippocrates the Great".

 

NOTES

1. B.C. – до нашей эры

2. the art of medicine – искусство медицины

3. by lighting fires – разжигая костры

4. quite modern – вполне современны

5. the famous Oath – знаменитая клятва Гиппократа

6. he created medicine on the basis of experience – Он создал медицину на основе опыта.

7. freed medicine from superstition – освободил медицину от предрассудков

8. paid much attention to diet – много уделял внимания правильному питанию

9. to set fractures – лечить переломы