Historians agree that Hippocrates was born around the year 460 BC on the Greek island of Kos ( Cos ), and became a famous ambassador for medicine against the strong opposing infrastructure of Greece.

* Hippocrates of Cos, Greek physician, ( 460 BC – 377 BC )

** Hippocrates of Cos, Greek physician ( d. 377 BC )

* 420 BC – Hippocrates of Cos maintains that diseases have natural causes and puts forth the Hippocratic Oath.

* Hippocrates of Cos, Greek physician ( d. 377 BC )

* Hippocrates of Cos, Greek physician ( b. c. 460 BC )

Around the time that The Clouds was produced, Democritus at Abdera was developing an atomistic theory of the cosmos and Hippocrates at Cos was establishing an empirical and science-like approach to medicine.

Hippocrates of Cos.

* Hippocrates of Cos

The Hippocratic Corpus was a collection of medical treatises attributed to the famous Greek physician Hippocrates of Cos ( although it was actually composed by different generations of authors ).

The work, Regimen in Acute Diseases, attributed to the ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates of Cos, describes the types and usage of medical regimens in his era ( 400 BCE ).

* Hippocrates of Cos On Regimen in Acute Diseases Francis Adams, trans.

Hippocrates was probably trained at the asklepieion of Kos, and took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria.

The only contemporaneous mention of Hippocrates is in Plato's dialogue Protagoras, where Plato describes Hippocrates as " Hippocrates of Kos, the Asclepiad.

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A towering figure in the history of medicine was the physician Hippocrates of Kos ( c. 460 – c. 370 BC ), considered the " father of modern medicine.

Hippocrates was the first documented chest surgeon and his findings are still valid. View of the Askleipion of Kos, the best preserved instance of an Asklepieion.

Cochrane, the son of a physician, speculated that Thucydides generally ( and especially in describing the plague in Athens ) was influenced by the methods and thinking of early medical writers such as Hippocrates of Kos.

Another famous healing temple ( or asclepieion ) was located on the island of Kos, where Hippocrates, the legendary " father of medicine ", may have begun his career.

Hippocrates is said to have received his medical training at an asclepieion on the isle of Kos.

Another famous healing temple ( or asclepieion ) was located on the island of Kos, where Hippocrates, the legendary " father of medicine ", may have begun his career.

Pythagoras was probably the source of most of books I and II, Hippocrates of Chios ( not the better known Hippocrates of Kos ) of book III, and Eudoxus book V, while books IV, VI, XI, and XII probably came from other Pythagorean or Athenian mathematicians.

The ancient physician Hippocrates is thought to have been born on Kos, and in the center of the town is the Plane Tree of Hippocrates, a dream temple where the physician is traditionally supposed to have taught.

Other islands in the Dodecanese also developed into significant economic and cultural centers ; most notably, Kos served as the site of the school of medicine founded by Hippocrates.

The " Tree of Hippocrates " in Kos, Greece, possibly a descendant of the original.

The Tree of Hippocrates, under which Hippocrates — the " Father of Medicine " — taught at Kos, is reputed to have been an oriental plane.

* Hypertexts-Medicina Antiqua, University College London ( Commentary on Hippocrates ' On the Nature of Man ; On the Natural Faculties ; Exhortation to Study the Arts: To Menodotus ; On Diagnosis from Dreams )

The ancients had a variety of ideas about heredity: Theophrastus proposed that male flowers caused female flowers to ripen ; Hippocrates speculated that " seeds " were produced by various body parts and transmitted to offspring at the time of conception ; and Aristotle thought that male and female semen mixed at conception.

However, the achievements of the writers of the Corpus, the practitioners of Hippocratic medicine, and the actions of Hippocrates himself are often commingled ; thus very little is known about what Hippocrates actually thought, wrote, and did.

This shift in medical thought since Hippocrates ' day has caused serious criticism over the past two millennia, with the passivity of Hippocratic treatment being the subject of particularly strong denunciations ;

Tumors were described more than 2, 000 years before the discovery of chromosomes and DNA ; in 500 B. C., the Greek physician Hippocrates named crab-shaped tumors karkinos ( from which the word " cancer " is derived via Latin ), meaning crab.

Hippocrates ( 460-377 BC ) prescribed it for curing pleurisy, fever, ulcers, and constipation ; it was used by the ancient Egyptians to kill bacteria.

Hippocrates ( 469-399 BC ) had a simple dream theory: during the day, the soul receives images ; during the night, it produces images.

Hippocrates sought a logic to sickness ; he is the first person known to have examined the relationships between the occurrence of disease and environmental influences.

* Hippocrates de Medicamentis, first discovered and published by Dr Caius ; also De Ratsone Vicius ( Lov.

In the Western tradition founded by Hippocrates, these vital forces were associated with the four temperaments and humours ; Eastern traditions posited similar forces such as qi and prana.

In 1743 he published the paper On the structure and diseases of articulating cartilages – which is often cited – especially the following sentence: “ If we consult the standard Chirurgical Writers from Hippocrates down to the present Age, we shall find, that an ulcerated Cartilage is universally allowed to be a very troublesome Disease ; that it admits of a Cure with more Difficulty than carious Bone ; and that, when destroyed, it is not recovered ”.

They had two sons ; the elder Hippocrates was father of another Megacles ( ostracized 486 BC ) and a daughter Agariste was mother of Pericles and Ariphron ( himself the father of Hippocrates of Athens who died 424 BC ).

The most important of his works were his editions of Pompeius Festus and Verrius Flaccus, and his translations of Horace ( with notes ), Aristotle's Poetics, the Electra and Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles ; Epictetus, Hippocrates and Plutarch's Lives.

Take the historical development of geometry as an example ; the first steps in the abstraction of geometry were made by the ancient Greeks, with Euclid's Elements being the earliest extant documentation of the axioms of plane geometry — though Proclus tells of an earlier axiomatisation by Hippocrates of Chios.

In the book Medicina Libri octo, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, influenced by Hippocrates writes, " Much more often, however, some other part is to be rubbed than that which is the seat of the pain ; and especially when we want to withdraw material from the head or trunk, and therefore rub the arms and legs.

; Possibly genuine works of Hippocrates

; Works predating Hippocrates