Hippocrates, The Father Of Medicine

Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine


     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 result of a

fire for which he was blamed.  He traveled to many other islands to practice

medicine.  Most of the cases in the two books of Epidemics considered to be

genuine are located at Thasos, a small island in the North Aegean Sea, and at

Abdera, a town on the adjacent mainland; but there are also references to

Cyzicus, on the south coast of the Sea of Marmara, and to Larisa and Meliboea in

Thessaly.   He died, according to tradition, in Larissa, Greece; little else is

known about him.  His name is associated wioth the Hippocratic Oath, though he

probably is not the author of the document.  In fact, of the approximately 70

works ascribed to him in the Hippocratic Collection, Hippocrates 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
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