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Hippocrates: Father of Medicine
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Hippocrates: Father of Medicine

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The reader is given a concept of the life and times when Hippocrates lived. The professions and trades during Hippocrates time are described as well as the early education of youth in ancient Greece. Medicines were not based on science but on driving evil spirits from the body. Hippocrates’ scientific approach to the study and treatment of disease has deservedly earned for him the title ‘Father of Medicine. He was born on the island of Cos in 460 B.C., and his works remained for centuries the foundation of medical and biographical knowledge. In addition, it was Hippocrates’ daring approach to the problems of sickness and disease that drove the opening wedge into the wall of fear that surrounded human ills. Hippocrates’ scrupulous attention to professional ethics is honored even to this day by the medical oath that bears his name-‘The Hippocratic Oath. 'Desperate diseases need desperate remedies. 'One man’s meat is another man’s poison -these well known sayings by Hippocrates were a direct attack on human suffering. Hippocrates also wrote books on epidemics and stressed the importance of diet in combating them.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Literary Licensing, LLC
Country
United States
Date
1 April 2012
Pages
118
ISBN
9781258299675

The reader is given a concept of the life and times when Hippocrates lived. The professions and trades during Hippocrates time are described as well as the early education of youth in ancient Greece. Medicines were not based on science but on driving evil spirits from the body. Hippocrates’ scientific approach to the study and treatment of disease has deservedly earned for him the title ‘Father of Medicine. He was born on the island of Cos in 460 B.C., and his works remained for centuries the foundation of medical and biographical knowledge. In addition, it was Hippocrates’ daring approach to the problems of sickness and disease that drove the opening wedge into the wall of fear that surrounded human ills. Hippocrates’ scrupulous attention to professional ethics is honored even to this day by the medical oath that bears his name-‘The Hippocratic Oath. 'Desperate diseases need desperate remedies. 'One man’s meat is another man’s poison -these well known sayings by Hippocrates were a direct attack on human suffering. Hippocrates also wrote books on epidemics and stressed the importance of diet in combating them.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Literary Licensing, LLC
Country
United States
Date
1 April 2012
Pages
118
ISBN
9781258299675