Why do woodcocks sometimes imitate rain? Detailed answer

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Why do woodcocks sometimes imitate rain?

Earthworms are the basis of food for woodcocks. To get worms from the ground, birds sometimes resort to tricks: they trample on the ground, imitating rain, which attracts victims to the surface.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Who is Hippocrates?

In many medical institutions, on the wall we can see a document placed in a frame - the so-called Hippocratic Oath. This is the oath that doctors take after graduation. What kind of oath is this and who was Hippocrates? Before the era of scientific medicine in which we live, there was a type of treatment that depended entirely on sorcerers and healers. Then more intelligent medicine was developed in Ancient Egypt and India.

The ancient Egyptians were good diagnosticians. They had medical schools, they practiced in surgery. But the treatment of diseases was still in the hands of the Egyptian religion, with prayers, incantations and sacrifices as elements of the treatment.

Scientific medicine began in Greece when a group of people who were not priests became doctors. The most famous of them, Hippocrates, who lived around 400 BC. e., called the "father of medicine". His approach to medicine was scientific. He abandoned all superstitions, magic and spells. He and his students took careful notes of the cases they encountered.

Some of their observations are still valid today: fatigue for no reason means illness. When sleep overcomes a delirium, this is a good sign. If pain is felt in any part of the body and there is no reason for it, this is a disorder of mental activity. Hippocrates was convinced in his ideas of who a doctor was and what he should be. This is embodied in the Hippocratic Oath, which, along with many, contains the following ideas:

"I will follow such a system of behavior that, according to my ability and sound judgment, will only benefit patients, and I will refrain from everything harmful and evil. I will never give poisonous drugs, even if asked for it, nor will I give such advice ... Whatever I see or hear in connection with my profession or not, but if it cannot be spoken openly, if it concerns human life, I will not divulge, considering that it should be kept secret.

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