Hippocrates
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- For other meanings of "Hippocrates", please see Hippocrates (disambiguation).
Hippocrates was a 5th century BC Greek-born physician known as Earth's "Father of Medicine". He developed an oath of medical ethics that was later known as the Hippocratic Oath and is taken by physicians as they begin their medical practice.
While the crew of the USS Enterprise visited the Platonians in 2268, Philana gave Dr. McCoy a scroll of ancient Greek cures, penned by Hippocrates himself, after McCoy saved Platonius. (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
In 2371, when asked for some soil samples, The Doctor mentioned how he felt like "Hippocrates when the king asked him to trim a toe nail." (VOY: "Parallax")
In 2372, while on the holodeck with Denara Pel, The Doctor explained to her who Hippocrates was. (VOY: "Lifesigns")
