Hippocratic concepts of acute and urgent respiratory diseases still relevant to contemporary medical thinking and practice: a scoping review.

Georgios Stefanakis Vasileia Nyktari Alexandra Papaioannou Helen Askitopoulou

Published in: BMC pulmonary medicine (2020)

The main Hippocratic concepts on four still common acute and urgent respiratory diseases -pneumonia, pleurisy, thoracic empyema and upper airway obstruction- were identified and most of them were found to be in agreement with contemporary medical thinking and practice.

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