Hippocrates is credited with being the first …
Years: 429BCE - 418BCE
Hippocrates is credited with being the first person to believe that diseases are caused naturally, not because of superstition and gods.
Hippocrates is credited by the disciples of Pythagoras of allying philosophy and medicine.
He separates the discipline of medicine from religion, believing and arguing that disease was not a punishment inflicted by the gods but rather the product of environmental factors, diet, and living habits.
Indeed there is not a single mention of a mystical illness in the entirety of the Hippocratic Corpus.
However, Hippocrates does work with many convictions that are based on what is today now known to be incorrect anatomy and physiology, such as Humorism.
Historians agree that Hippocrates was born around the year 460 BCE on the Greek island of Kos; other biographical information, however, is likely to be untrue.
Soranus of Ephesus, a seconnd-century Greek physician, will be Hippocrates' first biographer and the source of most personal information about him.
Later biographies are in the Suda of the tenth century, and in the works of John Tzetzes, Aristotle's "Politics", which date from the 4fourth century BCE.
Soranus will write that Hippocrates' father was Heraclides, a physician, and his mother was Praxitela, daughter of Tizane.
The two sons of Hippocrates, Thessalus and Draco, and his son-in-law, Polybus, were his students.
According to Galen, a later physician, Polybus was Hippocrates' true successor, while Thessalus and Draco each had a son named Hippocrates (Hippocrates III and IV).
Soranus said that Hippocrates learned medicine from his father and grandfather (Hippocrates I), and studied other subjects with Democritus and Gorgias.
Hippocrates was probably trained at the asklepieion of Kos, and took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria. Plato mentions Hippocrates in two of his dialogues: in Protagoras, Plato describes Hippocrates as "Hippocrates of Kos, the Asclepiad"; while in Phaedrus, Plato suggests that "Hippocrates the Asclepiad" thought that a complete knowledge of the nature of the body was necessary for medicine.
Hippocrates is credited by the disciples of Pythagoras of allying philosophy and medicine.
He separates the discipline of medicine from religion, believing and arguing that disease was not a punishment inflicted by the gods but rather the product of environmental factors, diet, and living habits.
Indeed there is not a single mention of a mystical illness in the entirety of the Hippocratic Corpus.
However, Hippocrates does work with many convictions that are based on what is today now known to be incorrect anatomy and physiology, such as Humorism.
Historians agree that Hippocrates was born around the year 460 BCE on the Greek island of Kos; other biographical information, however, is likely to be untrue.
Soranus of Ephesus, a seconnd-century Greek physician, will be Hippocrates' first biographer and the source of most personal information about him.
Later biographies are in the Suda of the tenth century, and in the works of John Tzetzes, Aristotle's "Politics", which date from the 4fourth century BCE.
Soranus will write that Hippocrates' father was Heraclides, a physician, and his mother was Praxitela, daughter of Tizane.
The two sons of Hippocrates, Thessalus and Draco, and his son-in-law, Polybus, were his students.
According to Galen, a later physician, Polybus was Hippocrates' true successor, while Thessalus and Draco each had a son named Hippocrates (Hippocrates III and IV).
Soranus said that Hippocrates learned medicine from his father and grandfather (Hippocrates I), and studied other subjects with Democritus and Gorgias.
Hippocrates was probably trained at the asklepieion of Kos, and took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria. Plato mentions Hippocrates in two of his dialogues: in Protagoras, Plato describes Hippocrates as "Hippocrates of Kos, the Asclepiad"; while in Phaedrus, Plato suggests that "Hippocrates the Asclepiad" thought that a complete knowledge of the nature of the body was necessary for medicine.
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Years: 429BCE - 418BCE
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