Hippocrates

c. 460–370 BCE

Hippocrates of Cos, a contemporary of Socrates, was the most famous physician of Greece and the head of the medical school of his island. The sixty-odd treatises that bear his name, written by many hands in the fifth and fourth centuries, founded medicine as an art based on observation and natural causes: Ancient Medicine, Airs Waters Places, the Prognostic, the Epidemics, the Aphorisms, the Sacred Disease and the Oath.