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Recommended: The contributions of hippocrates to medical science

Long ago, when humans believed in Zeus and were polytheistic, diseases and ailments were said to be a punishment from the gods. This time period, time of the ancient Greeks, had one man step out and go beyond belief and reached above a pinnacle in the works of a physician. This man created the start of a new belief, one where illnesses and diseases were not caused by some supernatural phenomenon, yet it be caused by the works of bad choices of humans instead.
The man I’m talking about is Hippocrates and he is the one who brought many benefits and a new intricate network of varied ways to help those in sickness.
Hippocrates is a Greek physician who was born in Cos, Greece 460 BC and is known as “The Father of Medicine.” Hippocrates lived to the time of 357 BC in Larissa, Thessaly. He does not have any record on whether or not he had a spouse or children. He has served as a physician for quite the while, almost all his life (excluding childhood). Hippocrates is a very wise man when it came to him and his work; much dedication was given from him in order to achieve maximum health within a sick patient.
Hippocrates used his knowledge of natural healing to help many people recover from what ails them in an attempt to; also, learn more of people’s sicknesses. Hippocrates once thoroughly examined the king of Macedonia, who was very sick at the time, and aided him in “recovering from tuberculosis”- which he did recover from (World Biography, 4). He even “put his self to the test” when he wholeheartedly put full commitment into healing those who battled the plague in Athens (World Biography, 4). Hippocrates’ career climax that truly “heightened his career” was all the work he did helping wounded soldiers “during the Peloponnesian war”, w...

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...ct of bad health and no exercising. Hippocrates has magnificently reinvented aspects and views of many minds, which resulted in various new modern day medicines. To this day, his works and documents inspire many physicians and scientist to go beyond the average mind- truly thinking outside the box.

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