Many practices in ancient Greek medical treatment are ascribed to Hippocrates, but very little is known about whether he instituted them himself of whether other or later physicians of his "school" instituted them. Most of our knowledge about him comes from the Greek physician Soranus who lived about 200 years after his death, making it difficult to separate fact from fiction.
Reasonably certain is that his major contribution was the insight that illnesses were not sent by the gods, but that they had natural causes. Furthermore he probably did start the practice of systematically analyzing and describing the symptoms of illnesses, which enabled later physicians to easily recognize illnesses and their recommended treatments. He was the author of a treatise called 'The complicated body', but because of the strict taboo at the time concerning dissection of humans, it would take another 1,500 years before the anatomy of humans was fully and clearly understood.
Hippocrates...?
To conclude both men were very important to medical knowledge they both made some important ideas But Hippocrates is the founder and father of medicine, without him Galen would never have been able to progress history as he did, Hippocrates theories set out medical development throughout time.
He was a Greek physician who set standards of behaviour for medical practitioners.
Hippocrates Asclepiades, "descendant of (the doctor-god) Asclepios," but it is uncertain whether this descent was by family or merely by his becoming attached to the medical profession. Legend likewise places him in the family line of the hero Hercules. Son of Heracleides and Praxithea,
It serves as a foundation for other similar oaths and laws that define medical practice. Such oaths are takes today by students entering the medical profession
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Hippocrates was a medical practicioner.
To conclude both men were very important to medical knowledge they both made some important ideas But Hippocrates is the founder and father of medicine, without him Galen would never have been able to progress history as he did, Hippocrates theories set out medical development throughout time.
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Hippocrates intrests were in finding new medical infromation and being a doctor.
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Hippocrates of Kos ( Hippocrates II), was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles. Hippocrates is known as the Father of Medicine. The Hippocratic Oath doctors still use, "do no harm," comes from Hippocrates.
Hippocrates was born around 460 BC in Cos, an island in Greece. According to Sonarus of Ephesus, Hippocrates was the son of Heraclides, who was a physician and his mother Praxitela was the daughter of Tizane. Sonarus writes that Hippocrates acquired knowledge of medicine from his grandfather and father and that he gained knowledge about other subjects from Gorgias ad Democritus. Hippocrates received his training at the asklepieion of Kos, and he also took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria