Hippocrates Asclepiades Research Paper

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My name is Hippocrates Asclepiades, I am often referred to as the descendent of the “doctor god”, Asclepios. I was born into a wealthy family, so I have had a firm education since my childhood, and as I progressed through my adolescent years, my father allowed me to be an apprentice under medical study and examination, keeping my interest and practice in this field strong since its roots. I can take the information and store it forever in my brain, recite any disease, why it is caused, how to treat it and how to prevent it, but I can also put these facts into play by physically using them and performing this methods on the sick, nursing them back to health in pristine conditions. Whether it be sanitation, dieting, exercise, dissection, disease, or even how the human body functions, I can fulfill it all. …show more content…

Another widely known accomplishment of mine is the “Hippocratic Oath”, documentation on ethics and morals within medical practices that will forever influence physicians worldwide. I also came up with the Four Humors, four things that a person is constructed of, and when these four things, (black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm) are unbalanced, you become sick. So now we have answers to why we are ill, and that feedback allows us a target of attack on how to cure the ailment. I have studied the human body since adolescence, alongside my father, medical environments, schooling, and self teachings, and have led to solutions for things such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and even epilepsy in children. I am a Greek Physician who developed the iconic history of medicine by revolutionizing, and made it a desirable profession throughout

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