Hippocrates
@ Hippocrates 
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| 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 |
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Hippocrates:
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| 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 the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.
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.
Origin
Hippocrates is based on the Greek physician commonly recognized as the father of Western medicine.
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.
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