Hippocraticaladj.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 337 Some of the Interpreters..haue disallowed of his Booke de Septimestri partu, as if it were not Hippocrates owne... But wee on the other side are as confident that it is truly Hippocraticall.

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 32 With an Hippocraticall face, deaths trustie messenger.

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop i in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ooo3^v There are certain Woolen Strainers..which they call Hippocrates his sleeves, wherein the Hippocratical Wine is twice or thrice strained, till it be clear.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician i. 7/2 When Physicians perceive the Hippocratical Signs of Death, they bid adieu to their Patients.

1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 199 The Hippocratical Rules of Diet in Fevers, of giving more or less, more thick, or more thin Aliment, according to the foreseen time of the Duration of the Fever.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 363 A physician truly Hippocratical, and guided by observation.

1859 G. P. R. James Old Dominion xliii. 374 There is the Hippocratical visage. No escaping from that!

1882 Med. Times & Gaz. 8 July 57/1 That there was probably no other country in Europe in which Hippocratical and other more or less expectant methods were more in vogue than in Spain.

1909 C. Pope Pract. Hydrotherapy i. 8 Hydrotherapy..prides itself on being the daughter of the old Hippocratical medicine.

1933 Lancet 25 Mar. 675/1 He had formerly a high opinion of Chymists, but had begun to doubt whether Chymistry could replace the old approved Galenical and Hippocratical remedies that experience had confirmed.

2007 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 12 Oct. 27 Perhaps those doctors who are feeling hard done would do well to remember that what they swore was the Hippocratic Oath, not a Hippocratical curse. Or should that be Hypocritical?