Greek philosopher Hippocrates.

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Hippocrates is Greek physician, who is often called 'the father of medicine.' Despite the existence of an elaborate tradition surrounding his name, modern scholarship recognizes that actually very little is known about his life, his activities, or his writings, and what is known is based indirectly on authors who lived at least 200 years after his death. The only contemporaries or near contemporaries who mention him are Plato, Aristotle, and Menon, a pupil of Aristotle. The influence of Hippocrates and of the Hippocratic writings has, however, been very real. It has incontestably helped in freeing medicine from superstition and speculative hypotheses.         From the slender sources available, we learn that Hippocrates was born ...

... School at Cos is useful, permitting the grouping of the more important treatises. First are the main medical works Epidemics I and III, Regimen in Acute Diseases, and Prognostic. These works are unified and scientific in outlook, giving emphasis to experimental bedside or clinical medicine. Regimen discusses the general principles to be followed in the acute fevers, especially those associated with pulmonary disease. Closely allied in style and spirit are the Aphorisms, Airs, Water, Places, Prorrhetics I, and Coan Prenotions. Most of these treatises are thought to have been the work of Hippocrates himself.         The second group consists of a series of largely technical surgical works.

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