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Bacchylides was a Greek lyrical poet. He was born about the middle of the 5th century BC at the island of Cos. He was a nephew of Simonides and a contemporary of Pindar.
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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.'
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COS is an abbreviation for Corporation for Open Systems
COS is an abbreviation for Cash On Shipment
COS is an abbreviation for Change of Status
COS is an abbreviation for Checkout Station
COS is an abbreviation for Chief of Staff
COS is an abbreviation for Chief of Station
COS is an abbreviation for Conceptual Operational System
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Cos (Kos) also known as Stanko, is a Greek island in the Aegean sea. It is the 2nd largest of the Dodecanese islands and gives its name to the
cos lettuce. The climate is fine and favours the production of vines, cereals, fruit and vegetables. The chief town is also called Cos and was the birthplace of Hippocrates and Apelles and possesses a mediaeval harbour.
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Cos ingeniorum is Latin for a whetstone for the wits
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