# Hippocrates (@hippocrates)

Hippocrates was a ancient Greek physician associated with a medical tradition. The collection attributed to Hippocrates contains works by multiple authors with differing theories, not a single unified textbook written by one man.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Hippocrates's public record._

## Topics

- [The Oath and Its Afterlives](/@hippocrates/the-oath-and-its-afterlives.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Observation and Prognosis](/@hippocrates/observation-and-prognosis.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Hippocratic Corpus](/@hippocrates/the-hippocratic-corpus.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_hippocrates.html
- blog: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hippocrates/
- blog: https://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/histmed/medica/hippocrate.htm

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "hippocrates", "question": "…"}`.