Reflection Of Hippocrates

Hippocrates “On the Surgery” is a outlook on how Athenian medicine was approached and the procedures that all in the medical field must follow. Hippocrates explains in the reading about how a doctor should care for his/her patients at their time of need without hurting the sick no more than what is already damaged. A doctor is not supposed to cause any ruthless actions, but only to heal the sick. Hippocrates also explains the type of bandages, how tight the bandages should be, the length of the bandage, and so on to properly care for the wound. Hippocrates also goes into great details on the hygiene of a doctor, and the time of day the surgery must be performed to have light. Hippocrates was born on the Greek island of Kos around the year

There are two kinds of light, the common and the artificial; the common is not at our disposal, the artificial is at our disposal. There are two modes of using each, either to the light, or from the light (to the side?). There is little use of that which is from (or oblique to the light), and the degree of it is obvious. As to opposite the light, we must turn the part to be operated upon to that which is most brilliant of present and convenient lights, unless those parts which should be concealed, and which it is a shame to look upon; thus the part that is operated upon should be opposite the light, and the operator opposite the part operated[p. 162] upon, except in so far as he does not stand in his own light; for in this case the operator will indeed see, but the thing operated upon will not be seen” (Part 3 Page 1) that in order to get a successful surgery and proper care, a physician must have the correct light. A doctor can stand or sit during a surgery; whatever is suitable for the surgeon. I learned and now understand why surgeon have certain lights during a procedure. In the 21st century, the surgeon is standing up with huge white bright lamps over the patient during the surgery on any time of the day. The lamps are adjustable to the angle the doctor needs the light in a certain area, as for which, during Hippocrates time, it had

The major part before treatment can start, is the hands and finger nails. Hippocrates states in this reading that “The nails should be neither longer nor shorter than the points of the fingers; and the surgeon should practice with the extremities of the fingers, the index-finger being usually turned to the thumb; when using the entire hand, it should be prone; when both hands, they should be opposed to one another. It greatly promotes a dexterous use of the fingers when the space between them is large, and when the thumb is opposed to the [p. 163] index. But it is clearly a disease when the thumb is impaired from birth, or when, from a habit contracted during the time of nursing, it is impeded in its motions by the fingers (Part 4 Page 2) there are rules and regulations upon the hands and nails. A doctor nails cannot be long, nor can the hands can be dirty. Hippocrates explains that if a doctor does not follow this distinct strict rule, that it can contaminate the patient and the doctor (especially with the dirt from under the doctor’s fingers). If the nails are dirty, it can get into the patients’ blood and make both the doctor and patient ill. I learned why a physician in the 21st century must wear a blue cloth from neck to feet, wash from elbow down do the hands, must wear a cloth around their arms, scrubs, boots, and gloves. A doctor currently must