| Hippocrates,
a Greek physician (circa 460 to 377 B.C.) is traditionally revered as the father
of Medicine. Few details of his life are known to us. It seems that he was the
son of a physician and that he traveled widely in Greece and Asia Minor,
teaching and practicing his art of medicine.
The Hippocratic collection of writings is generally attributed to him, but is
more likely that it constituted a library of the medical school at Kos where he
taught. The collection deals with clinical subjects, anatomy, diseases of women
and children, treatments through diet and herbs, prognosis, surgery and medical
ethics.
The latter gave rise to the famous Hippocratic oath which is sworn to by
modern physicians.
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