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Who was Hippocrates and what contributions did he make to the world?
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He was a physician in Ancient Greece and he is generally considered 'the father of modern medicine'. That was notbecause he developed techniques or medicines to cure people. Like every doctor until the 20th century he had in most cases to sit by and let nature take its course. But he was the first to discover that illnesses were not 'punishments of the gods', but that they were a natural phenomenon and could be classified and be approached systematically. He systematically gathered information about the course of illnesses and so could predict how they would play out and what their 'critical moments' were.
Most of what we think we know about Hippocrates dates from some 200 years after his death, when Greek physicians first started to write about him. A lot of that may be achievements only later attributed to him. There is no contemporary evidence of what he did or thought. The 'Hippocratic Oath" only bears his name; it is certain he did not come up with it himself.
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