Hippocrates of Kos is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is credited with coining the Hippocratic Oath, which is still relevant and in use today. Hippocrates taught and practiced medicine throughout his life, traveling at least as far as Thessaly, Thrace, and the Sea of Marmara.
About Hippocrates in brief
Hippocrates of Kos is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is credited with coining the Hippocratic Oath, which is still relevant and in use today. Hippocrates taught and practiced medicine throughout his life, traveling at least as far as Thessaly, Thrace, and the Sea of Marmara. He died, probably in Larissa, at the age of 83, 85 or 90, though some say he lived to be well over 100. He separated 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. The Knidian school of medicine focused on diagnosis. The Hippocratic school or Koan school achieved greater success by applying general diagnoses and applying passive treatments. It could treat diseases and allowed for a great development in clinical practice. Now, the physician of modern medicine focuses on specific diagnosis and treatment, both of which were espoused by Hippocrates’ school of which he was the founder. This shift in medical thought has caused serious criticism over their denunciations for the French doctor Moud Soud, for example, who effectively denunciated Hippocrates for his denunciation of Moud Houd for effectively treating Soud. He was also credited with being the first person to believe that diseases were caused naturally, not because of superstition and gods. He believed that a complete knowledge of the nature of the body was necessary for medicine.
However, Hippocrates did work with many convictions that were based on what is now known to be incorrect anatomy and physiology, such as Humorism. He also believed that humans knew almost nothing of human anatomy because of the Greek taboo forbidding the dissection of humans. He thought that the only way to cure a disease was to give it a name, and to name it a specific name, like the disease called Sacred. He wrote the Corpus of Hippocratic Medicine, which summed up the medical knowledge of previous schools, and prescribing practices for physicians. The Corpus is not a single mention of a mystical illness in the entirety of the Hippocrates Corpus and other works. It is also not known if Hippocrates ever had a son named Hippocrates. 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’s true successor, while Thessalos and Draco each had a sons named Hipp Socrates. He taught medicine from his father and grandfather, and studied other subjects with Democritus and Gorgias. In two of his dialogues, Plato describes Hippocrates as \”Hipp Socrates of Kos, the Asclepiad\”; while in Phaedrus, Plato suggests that Hippocrates the As Clepiad thought that a complete knowledge of the body was needed for medicine to be a physician.
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