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he didn't believe in superstitions like spirits or gods causing the illness

because of that he changed the medicine world

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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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