The Probert Encyclopaedia of People

HIPPOCRATES

Hippocrates was a Greek doctor. He was born in 460 BC on the island of Cos and died in 370 BC. He established medicine as a science. Besides practising and teaching his profession at home he travelled on the continent of Greece, and died at an advanced age at Larissa, in Thessaly. His writings, which were early celebrated, became the nucleus of a collection of medical treatises by a number of authors of different places and periods, which werelong attributed to him, and still bear his name. The best edition is that of Littre. Among his genuine writings are the first and third books on epidemics; the aphorisms; on diet in acute diseases; on air, waters, and localities; on prognostics; on wounds of the head. Hippocrates was one of the first to insist on the importance of diet and regimen in disease. He had remarkable skill in diagnosis, practised auscultation, and taught the doctrine of 'critical days.'
Research Hippocrates