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Hippocrates. Sarah Schork. My scientist is Hippocrates. Hippocrates, also known as the ‘’Father Of Medicine’’, was a Greek physician. His current and most famous belief is that disease comes naturally, and not due to superstition and Gods.
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Hippocrates Sarah Schork
My scientist is Hippocrates Hippocrates, also known as the ‘’Father Of Medicine’’, was a Greek physician. His current and most famous belief is that disease comes naturally, and not due to superstition and Gods. He was the founder of the Hippocratic School Of Medicine. This university revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece, which authorized establishing medicine as a profession. I chose him because I find that his cause and theories were absolutely terrific, and his name, extremely catchy.
September 2nd,450 BC • My dear friend, I don’t particularly enjoy the company of the local boys. They all seem to appease themselves with acts of cruelty upon the living, such as small birds and cats. But why? Seeing as how he is a physician, my father always taught me to value life. Not crush it to pieces. One day, I plan on changing that.
Timeline. • Around 460 B.C. Hippocrates was born. • 431 B.C.- 404 B.C.:The heart of Hippocrates’ career awakens with the Peloponnesian War. • Died in 377 B.C. • 200 B.C.- A collection of Hippocrates’ theories and ideas are found in a book called the Hippocratic collection.
Famous quote: ‘’ Many admire, few know.’’ -Hippocrates
Other contributions to Medicine… Hippocrates and his students diagnosed several other illnesses. He held the first description of ‘’clubbed’’ fingers; an important diagnostic sign in chronic suppurative lung disease, long cancer, and cyanotic heart disease. Hemorrhoids, thought to be caused by an excess of bile and phlegm, was treated by Hippocratic physicians with advanced medical care. Some treatments used by Hippocrates for hemorrhoids is still used today, such as burning, excising, and strangling.
Extra information. Due to Hippocrates’ so revered reputation, the world of medicine advanced little after his death. His observations seemed ‘’too great to be worked on’’ and were left untouched. During the middle ages, Arabs adapted to Hippocratic methods. Hippocratic methods were also revived in Europe further towards the nineteenth century. Henri Huchard, a french physician, pronounced that these revivals made up ‘’the whole history of iternal medicine.’’
