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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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....eneral health of citizens. Three other works-
Prognostic, Coan Prognosis, and Aphorisms -advanced the then- revbolutionary
idea that, by observing enough cases, a physician can predict the course of a
disease.
The idea of preventative medicine, first concieved in Regimen and
Regimen in Acute Diseases, sterss not only diet but also the patient's general
way of living and how it influences his or her health and well being. Sacred
Disease, a treastise on epilepsy, revealed the rudimentary knowle.... |
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