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