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Who Was Hippocrates?
In this Hippocrates worksheet, students study and learn facts about the contribution of Hippocrates to medicine. After reading the one page text, students may answer 4 essay questions.
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Hippocratic Medical Rounds
A very interesting way to model Hippocrates allows your clas to to compare world views and to illustrate how ideas have changed at key times throughout the history of science. This simulation has young scholars role play patients and...
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Stay Well
Young scholars complete a three part activity lesson to identify elements of longevity in life expectancies and health. In this life expectancies lesson, students read background information about life expectancy data, and visit links to...
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Totally Trivial - "A"
High school high schoolers can hone their research skills by utilizing the Internet to find the answers to the trivia questions presented in this on-line worksheet. All sorts of questions are posed: everything from questions about famous...
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Protagoras
In this online interactive philosophy worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Protagoras by Plato. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive worksheet.
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Vocabulary practice: Similar Meanings
In this vocabulary practice worksheet, students examine 12 sets of 3 words each and then add 1 word to each list that is a synonym to the others. A word bank is provided.
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Explore Rx Quiz
In this exploring prescriptions instructional activity, students answer 6 multiple choice questions related to diseases, medicine, the human body and poisonous plants. Students use an on line web site that gives them an immediate score.
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The Rise of Islam
In this Islamic medicine worksheet, students read about the rise of Islam and the history of medicine within the culture. Students read 5 passages.
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Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
In this allusion worksheet, students work in pairs to define the allusions assigned to them from the play 'Skin of Our Teeth.' Students present their research to the class.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Hippocrates of Chios
This page gives information about Hippocrates and his life. While brilliant at geometry, he was perceived as being naive and not as bright in handling his personal financial matters.
The National Gallery (UK)
The National Gallery: Bust of Hippocrates
The Portrait of Ludocius Nonnius examines the bust of Hippocrates created by Peter Paul Rubens. The bust is part of the background scene for a larger, more famous painting of Rubens which can also be viewed.
University of Virginia
Antiqua Medicina: Hippocrates
Short, illustrated essay about Hippocrates and the central role he plays in understanding how medicine was perceived and practiced by the ancient Greeks. [Link back to the Antiqua Medicina home for access to a complete history of...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Works by Hippocrates
Contains s number of works written by Hippocrates and translated by Francis Adams. Extensive primary source material.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Hippocrates of Chios
This site looks into the life of Hippocrates, the teacher and mathematician, who worked mostly with circles and cubes.
Read Works
Read Works: Famous Scientists Hippocrates
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage gives a brief biography of Hippocrates and background of the Hippocratic Oath. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Brought to Life: Hippocrates (C. 460 C. 370 Bce)
A brief overview of Hippocrates and his ideas about effective medicine.
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Greek Medicine: Hippocrates: Father of Medicine
Looks at the life of Hippocrates and the significant impact he had, and continues to have today, on the practice of medicine.
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University of St Andrews: Mathematics Archive: Hippocrates
This page gives information about Hippocrates and his life. It also contains informatin about different people like Aristotle, Euclid, and Proclus.
University of Waterloo (Canada)
The Concept of Disease: Historical Developments
Contains information on scientific developments surrounding diseases. Includes the following sections: Hippocrates and the Humoral Theory; Fracastoro and the Contagion Theory; Pasteur, Lister, Koch and the Germ Theory; and Current...
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University of St. Andrews: Hippocrates of Chios
This site looks into the life of Hippocrates, the teacher and mathematician, who worked mostly with circles and cubes.
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Smithsonian Libraries: Hippocrates (Ca. 460 Bce Ca. 377 Bce)
A portrait of Hippocrates from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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The Asclepion: Medicine in Ancient Greece
Impressive Classics Technology Center site lists the achievements of the ancient Greeks in medicine from the time of Homer up to Hippocrates and the plague of Athens during the Peloponnesian war. Gives evidence from ancient texts.