miltiades wrote:Oracle wrote:miltiades wrote:Oracle wrote:miltiades wrote: ... our dedication and perseverance in constantly researching in order to discover treatments to help alleviate decease and suffering , something that the father of medicine hundreds of years ago must have had in mind in devising the great medical oath .
It was THOUSANDS of years ago not hundreds and he (the father of medicine) was one of your despised Kalamarades -- which you never fail to disparage at any other time, you hypocrite!
O, thousands of years ago means thousands and thousands not two thousand , where hundreds means many hundreds !!
How many thousands exactly are more than .. 25 hundreds !!!
Hippokrates was of course an ancient Greek , not a kalamaras !!
Rumours also have it that he was from Stroumbi The Great
If it's over two thousand, then that is THOUSANDS.
And he was the archetype for the Turks (and you) calling Greeks Kalamarades because they traditionally, since antiquity, spent a lot of their time writing!
The term Kalamaras was not known in ancient times .
I've just told you ... the Turks coined it!
Anyway, here is a little reflection on the profoundness of Hippocrates and the school of many Greek physicians ...
Anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote:
For the first time in our tradition there was a complete separation between killing and curing. Throughout the primitive world, the doctor and the sorcerer tended to be the same person. He with the power to kill had power to cure, including specially the undoing of his own killing activities. He who had the power to cure would necessarily also be able to kill...With the Greeks the distinction was made clear. One profession, the followers of Asclepius, were to be dedicated completely to life under all circumstances, regardless of rank, age or intellect - the life of a slave, the life of the Emperor, the life of a foreign man, the life of a defective child...
Kalinihta .... and all good wishes for an eventual full recovery.