Hippocrateanadj.

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxxi. 187 The face changed into an Hippocratean visage, otherwise called a Mortiferous face.

?1719 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ VI. 43 The antique Suidas, and the ancient Protestant Simlerus, make Mention of six different Hippocrates's tho' all Medical Writers,..and all of the same Hippocratean Family.

1755 J. Maxwell Let. from Friend 10 That celebrated Hippocratean Axiom, ‘Nature cures diseases’.

1835 E. A. Poe Loss of Breath in Wks. (1864) IV. 307 My minute acquaintance with the Hippocratian pathology.

1876 W. Stephens Mem. Chichester 190 Half of the wine was to be hypocratian.

1896 Liverpool Medico-chirurg. Jrnl. 16 147 Much importance was attached to the gradual evacuation of the pus by the Hippocratean School.

1913 Amer. Vet. Rev. 43 570 Hippocrates..seems to have been of sufficient individuality to cast his shadow far down the aisles of time. We have the Hippocratean face; we are using in some of the medical colleges the Hippocratean oath.

1960 20th Cent. Mar. 269 Until less than a century ago every great medical school—Hippocratean and Christian alike—subscribed to what Mr. Jelly sneers at as the ‘argot’ of treating ‘the whole man’.

1996 I. Hannaford Race iii. 61 The Hesiodic myths, the histories of Herodotus, the Hippocratian reflections on climate and relief, and the works of Plato and Aristotle do not offer much evidence of an organizing idea of race.

2008 BBC Monitoring Europe (Nexis) 26 Nov. The rights of Polish patients to regular health care guided by the Hippocratean principles.