Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hippocrates \Hip*poc"ra*tes\, n.
   A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos,
   about 460 B. C.

   {Hippocrates' sleeve}, a conical strainer, made by stitching
      together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth,
      esp. flannel of linen.