Hippocrates has contributed to the medical treatment and the advancement in medicine in the ancient world by delivering the Hippocratic Oath. It involves a Doctor to vow to practise medicine ethically without the intentional harming of the patient. It is a creed taken by doctors in the Ancient World as well as today. This was supposedly written in the late 5th Century BE. It has been debated who has actually authored the Oath. It is believed that Hippocrates or his followers have written it, although there are some historians argue that Pythagoras had written it. It is widely accepted, however, that Hippocrates authored it. The Oath has contributed to the advancement of medicine as it was the first of its kind to make a physician swear to practise medicine ethically and it revolutionised the treatments that doctor's used on their patients. The Hippocratic Oath is found in the Hippocratic Corpus, a series of over 70 medical documents all credited to Hippocrates.
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