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— Dad!

— Yes, Richard?

— Our Biology teacher asked the class a question, which no one could answer.

— Really? What was the question?

— It was about a man called Hippocrates.

— Hippocrates of Ancient Greece... He is often called the father of medicine.

— Why? Did he invent medicine... or medicines?

— Not really. Even in prehistoric times there were people who could cure an illness with the help of some plants or plant juices and do some other things to help a sick person but Hippocrates was one of the first professional doctors. He didn’t use magic in medicine and made it more scientific.

— I think, I heard something about the Hippocratic oath. What is it?

— The Hippocratic oath is a promise to try to save life and to follow the standards set in the medical profession.

— Was Hippocrates the first man who gave that oath?

— No, not really. This oath was given his name to honour Hippocrates.

— Why?

— Because he taught medical people one very important thing; he taught them that a doctor had to help his patients and do everything he could for them. Hippocrates thought it was necessary to understand why a person had become ill and use the best ways to cure him or her. His main ideas are still followed today.

 

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Аудиозапись № 49 к упражнению 1

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was the first woman to travel into space. She was born on March 6, 1937 in Russia. Valentina Tereshkova had no pilot training before her career as a cosmonaut but she was a very good parachutist when she joined the Soviet cosmonaut programme which happened in 1961.

On June 16, 1963 in the spaceship Vostok-6 she flew into space and stayed there more than seventy hours. Her spacecraft orbited the Earth 48 times. In space at the same time was another Soviet cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky in Vostok-5. He had flown into space two days before. Tereshkova and Bykovsky landed on June 19.

Valentina Tereshkova left the cosmonaut programme just after her flight. In 1963 she got married to Andriyan Nikolaev, another Russian cosmonaut.

Tereshkova was named a hero of the Soviet Union and twice got the order of Lenin.

 

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