It is difficult to isolate the facts of hippocrates life from the later tales told about him or to assess his medicine. The internet classics archive on the sacred disease by. He is called hippocrates asclepiades, descendant of the doctorgod asclepios, but it is uncertain whether this descent was by family or merely by his becoming attached to the medical profession. Biography of hippocrates historians agree that hippocrates was born around the year 460 bc on the greek island of cos. Bust of hippocrates of cos, ancient greek physician and geographer, considered the. Although little is known of the life of hippocrates or, indeed, if he was the only practitioner of the time using this namea body of manuscripts, called the. He alsotraveled widely, lecturing in greece and probably throughout the ancient mideast. Hippocrates was born on the greek island of cos around 460 b. Soranus of ephesus, a 2ndcentury greek gynecologist, was hippocrates first biographer and is the source of most personal information about. It is thus with regard to the disease called sacred. After some misadventures he was robbed by either pirates or fraudulent customs officials he went to athens, possibly for litigation, where he became a leading mathematician.
The internet classics archive works by hippocrates. Little is known of his life but he is reported to have been an excellent geometer who, in other respects, was stupid and lacking in. Hippocratic oath, ethical code attributed to the ancient greek physician hippocrates, adopted as a guide to conduct by the medical profession throughout the ages and still used in the graduation ceremonies of many medical schools. Hippocrates has 181 books on goodreads with 4383 ratings. Click download or read online button to get hippocrates book now. Books by hippocrates author of hippocratic writings. Biography of hippocrates about 470 bcabout 410 bc hippocrates of chios taught in athens and worked on the classical problems of squaring the circle and duplicating the cube. This biography profiles his childhood, life, works, achievements and timeline. Find out more about hippocrates, who is best known for the famous oath that bears his name, at. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Hippocrates biography life, family, death, history. Cos was the site of one of the great medical schools of ancient greece, and hippocrates taught there for many years. Hippocrates biography childhood, life achievements.
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