Tree of Hippocrates

The Medical Association of Cos presented a gavel made from wood of the plane tree to the President of the Canadian Medical Association in 1954.{{cite web

|url = http://www.cfpc.ca/English/cfpc/communications/50th/history/default.asp?s=1

|title = Brief History

|accessdate = September 22, 2006

|date = August 23, 2004

|publisher = The College of Family Physicians of Canada

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061011105959/http://www.cfpc.ca/English/cfpc/communications/50th/history/default.asp?s=1

|archivedate = October 11, 2006

}}

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Seeds or cuttings from the tree have been spread all over the world.{{cite web

|url = http://www.world-publishing.com/medicine/articles/march2004/healing_killing_3rd_reich.asp

|title = Healing by killing: medicine in the third reich

|accessdate = September 22, 2006

|author = Sheldon Rubenfeld, M.D.

|date = March 2004

|publisher = Houston Medicine Magazine

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060511230742/http://www.world-publishing.com/medicine/articles/march2004/healing_killing_3rd_reich.asp

|archivedate = May 11, 2006

}} A cutting of the tree was presented as a gift from the island of Kos to the United States and the National Library of Medicine, and planted on December 14, 1961 on the grounds surrounding the library.{{cite web

| author = National Library of Medicine

| author-link = National Library of Medicine

| title = Objects of Art: Tree of Hippocrates

| publisher = United States National Institutes of Health

| date = March 1, 2000

| url = https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/tour/hippocrates.html

| accessdate = September 22, 2006}} Many medical colleges, libraries or institutions have, or claim to have, trees cut or seeded from the original tree in Kos.{{cite web

| url = http://fyi.utah.edu/old_site_2003-07/archives/2006/archive_060906.html

| title = FYI archives, September 6, 2006

| accessdate = December 2, 2011

| last = Williams

| first = Ann

| author-link =

| date = September 6, 2006

| publisher = The University of Utah

| pages =

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Trees cut or seeded from the original tree can be found, among others:

North America:

• The American College of Physicians have a mace with a wooden shaft made from a branch of a plane tree from the island of Kos.
• A cutting was planted on the campus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham to accompany a commissioned marble statue of Hippocrates. The 1971 installation was a gift from the Nakos Foundation to the University's medical center.{{Cite book | last=Norton | first=Bertha Bendall | year=1970 | title=Birmingham's First Magic Century: Were You There? | location=Birmingham, Alabama | publisher=Lakeshore Press }}
• The Canadian Medical Association obtained a cutting in 1969, which was planted in Walker County, Alabama in 1981.{{cite web

| url = http://www.forestry.state.al.us/publication/PDFs/famous_and_historic_trees.pdf#search=%22tree%20of%20hippocrates%22

| title = ALABAMA'S FAMOUS & HISTORIC TREE PROGRAM - 2003

| accessdate = September 22, 2006

| format = PDF

| publisher = Alabama Forestry Commission

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060719062135/http://www.forestry.state.al.us/publication/PDFs/famous_and_historic_trees.pdf#search=%22tree%20of%20hippocrates%22 |archivedate = July 19, 2006}}

• at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI{{cite web|url=http://www.brownmedicinemagazine.org/blog/article/tree-of-knowledge/|title=Tree of Knowledge|website=www.brownmedicinemagazine.org|access-date=2016-06-02}}
• at The Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University{{cite web

| url = http://www.ecu.edu/news/hippocratestree.cfm#.T4L-Fo5cl1E

| title = The Tree of Hippocrates: West Campus Addition Rooted in ancient Greece

| accessdate = April 5, 2012

| publisher = ECU News Services}}

• at Mercer University School of Medicine{{cite web

| url = http://www.mercer.edu/advancement/news/2000/0403tree.htm

| title = AHEPA Organization Donates Statue of Hippocrates

| accessdate = September 22, 2006

| publisher = University of Michigan Health History Research Center

}}

• at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland
• at the University of Michigan Medical School{{cite web|url=http://www.si.umich.edu/HCHS/Retrospex/RetroV3N1/retro3.1e.html |title=Hippocrates Tree to be Planted, Blessed at Medical School |accessdate=September 22, 2006 |publisher=Mercer University |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051126053559/http://www.si.umich.edu/HCHS/Retrospex/RetroV3N1/retro3.1e.html |archivedate=November 26, 2005 }}
• at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine{{cite web

|url = http://southmed.usouthal.edu/com/thebeat/apr97/clikas.htm

|title = Clikas honored for planting of "the trees of hippocrates"

|accessdate = September 22, 2006

|date = May 1, 1997

|publisher = University of South Alabama Biomedical Library

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060910014331/http://southmed.usouthal.edu/com/thebeat/apr97/clikas.htm

|archivedate = September 10, 2006

}}

• at the University of Victoria{{cite web|url=http://web.uvic.ca/forbiol/news/Treewalk.pdf |title=Forest Biology Tree Walk |accessdate=September 9, 2008 |publisher=University of Victoria |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206045004/http://web.uvic.ca/forbiol/news/Treewalk.pdf |archivedate=February 6, 2009 }}
• at Yale University

{{cite web

|url = http://yalemedicine.yale.edu/ym_sp06/archives.html

|title = Yale Medicine, Spring 2006, archives

|accessdate = September 22, 2006

|year = 1981

|publisher = Yale Medicine

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060909054600/http://yalemedicine.yale.edu/ym_sp06/archives.html

|archivedate = September 9, 2006

}}

• at the University of Florida J Hillis Miller Health Science Center, where College of Medicine students obtained cuttings in 1969 and which inspired the annual Hippocratic Award
• at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
• at the West Virginia School of Medicine near the Library in Charleston, West Virginia
• at the Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
• at MedStar Harbor Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
• at New York Medical College / Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY
• at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School{{Cite web|url=https://www.uth.edu/media/story.htm?id=efe25a03-c075-4abb-8b80-a8793d412242|title=UTHealth Media Relations|website=www.uth.edu}}
• adjacent to the University of Utah School of Medicine, where it is planted at the southwest corner of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library

South America:

• at the University of São Paulo, Brazil
• at the Londrina State University, Brazil

Europe:

• at the University of Glasgow, Department of Medical Genetics{{cite web

| url = http://www.yorku.ca/agyu/exhibitions/borland.html

| title = Christine Borland

| accessdate = September 22, 2006

| publisher = York University Art Gallery

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070314222001/http://www.yorku.ca/agyu/exhibitions/borland.html |archivedate = March 14, 2007}}

• at Queen's University Belfast Medical School, Northern Ireland https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/ErskineHouseTreeCrownedNorthernIrelandsTreeoftheYear.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313031402/https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/ErskineHouseTreeCrownedNorthernIrelandsTreeoftheYear.html |date=2018-03-13 }}],https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/ErskineHouseTreeCrownedNorthernIrelandsTreeoftheYear.html , ERSKINE HOUSE TREE CROWNED NORTHERN IRELAND’S ‘TREE OF THE YEAR’
• at the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences{{Cite news|url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelona/20171023/432302843762/barcelona-planta-arbol-descendiente-hipocrates.html|title=Barcelona planta un árbol descendiente del de Hipócrates|work=La Vanguardia|access-date=2017-10-24}}
• at the Royal College of Physicians in London

Oceania:

• at University of Sydney's School of Rural Health in Dubbo, Australia.{{cite web

|url = http://www.racgp.org.au/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/AustralianFamilyPhys/2006issues/20060906/20060906kidd.pdf

|title = Hippocrates' tree

|accessdate = September 22, 2006

|last = Kidd

|first = Michael

|date = September 2006

|publisher = The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

|page = 733

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110706125742/http://www.racgp.org.au/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/AustralianFamilyPhys/2006issues/20060906/20060906kidd.pdf

|archivedate = July 6, 2011

}}{{cite journal

| url = http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/183_11_051205/til10773_fm.html

| title = Hippocrates came across our desks

| accessdate = September 22, 2006

| author = David J Tiller

|author2=Rick McLean |author3=Bruce C Harris

|date=November 2005

| issue = 11

| journal = Medical Journal of Australia

| volume = 183

| page = 602

| doi = 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb00048.x

| s2cid = 80010468

}}

• at Burwood Hospital, in Christchurch, New Zealand
• at Orange Health Service, Orange, Australia
• at Hawke's Bay Hospital in Hastings, New Zealand
• at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Western Australia

Asia:

• in front of the Medical Library, Kyushu University, Fukuoka City (Japan). Donated by Dr. Hiroshi Kambara in 1973.

File:Tree of Hippocrates NIH.jpg|A gift from the Greek Dodecanese island of Kos, historic birthplace of Hippocrates, Father of Medicine, at the National Library of Medicine.

File:Hippocrates Plaque.jpg|Plaque at base of Tree of Hippocrates at the National Library of Medicine.

File:Tree_of_Hippocrates_at_USUHS.jpg|Tree of Hippocrates at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland

• List of individual trees

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• [http://www.red-door.co.uk/tours/tree-of-hippocrates/tree-of-hippocrates.html Tree of Hippocrates panorama] 360 panorama view of the ancient Plane Tree in the Square of the Platane, Kos .

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