Hippocrates Called "the Father of Medicine."460?-377? b.c. Greek physician who laid the foundations of scientific medicine by freeing medical study from the constraints of philosophical speculation and superstition. He is traditionally but inaccurately considered the author of the Hippocratic oath.
The ancient biographer Soranus said that Hippocrates learned medicine from his father and grandfather, and studied other subjects with Democritus and Gorgias. Hippocrates was probably trained at the asklepieion of Kos, and took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria.
he didn't believe in superstitions like spirits or gods causing the illnessbecause of that he changed the medicine worldAnother answer:He was the founder of the Hippocratic School of medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece, establishing it as a discipline distinct from other fields that it had traditionally been associated with (notably theurgy and philosophy), thus making medicine a profession.
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He was a historical doctor!!
no. he/she took the oath of hippocrate.
He made many advances in medicine and knowledge of the human body and health/diseases.
It may be in The Hippocratic Corpus which was written either by Hippocrates or his students.
Believed in Hippocrate's methods of observing and recording. Wrote the first accurate descriptions of of measles and smallpox..
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He lived between 460 and 370BC. He died in Larissa at the age of 90
Hippocrates didn't really go to a certain school persay. He was actually taught by his father and grandfather, both of whom were accomplished physicians.
Hippocrate was born in 460 A.D. from a Greek family interested in medicine.So he grew up interested in the art of cure too.Hippocrate didn't believe in fairy tales and evil spirits; he said that any malady has a reason and men should study and try to figure a medicine for it.Hippocrate have made an oath for who wanted to be a doctor.That oath is still used in our days in all universities.
Hippocrates of Kos also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), who is considered one of the most sucessful phycian