Hippocrates, The Father Of Medicine
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Hippocrates, greatest physician of antiquity, is regarded as the father
of medicine. Born on the island of Kos, Greece in the year 460 b.c., says the
earliest biography written by Soranus of Ephesus in the a third century a.d.
Although a native of Kos he was forced to leave the island as the resu ....
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.... may actually
have written about six of them. The Hippocratic Collection probably is the
remnant of the medical library of the famous Kos school of medicine. His
teachings, sense of detachment, and ability to make direct, clinical
observations probably influenced the other authors of these works and had much
to do with freeing ancient medicine from superstition.
Among the more significant works of the Hippocratic Collection is Airs,
Waters, and Places, which, instead of ascribing di ....
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