# Hippocrates

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Hippocrates

@ Hippocrates 

Difficulty

22

Attacks

Weapon 1d6

@ Hippocrates 

Difficulty

22

Attacks

Weapon 1d6

Base level

20

Base experience

583

Speed

12

Base AC

0

Base MR

40

Alignment

0 (neutral)

Frequency (by normal means)

Unique

Genocidable

No

Weight

1450

Nutritional value

400

Size

Medium

Resistances

Poison

Resistances conveyed

None

Hippocrates:

 has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso.

 is omnivorous.

 is not a valid polymorphable form.

 is a human.

 is male.

 is normally generated peaceful.

 is strong.

 can pick up weapons and food.
 can pick up magical items.

 lets you close unless attacked.

 can be seen through infravision.

Reference

monst.c#line3092

Hippocrates, @, is the Healer quest leader. Like his attendants, the player and player monster Healers, he has intrinsic poison resistance.

Strategy

The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that it is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate this information.
Hippocrates, along with other quest leaders, has been made significantly stronger, since killing quest leaders no longer makes the game unwinnable.  
The changed stats are as follows:
Speed becomes 15 (from 12); MR becomes 90 (from 30), and he gains two 3d8 cast clerical attacks.
Hippocrates also starts with a +5 silver dagger.

Encyclopedia entry

Greek physician, recognized as the father of medicine. He is believed to have been born on the island of Cos, to have studied under his father, a physician, to have traveled for some time, perhaps studying in Athens, and to have then returned to practice, teach, and write at Cos.  The Hippocratic or Coan school that formed around him was of enormous importance in separating medicine from superstition and philosophic speculation, placing it on a strictly scientific plane based on objective observation and critical deductive reasoning.

[ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ] 

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