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Why did the doctors follow the ideas of Hippocrates for so long? Hippocrates was a Greek philosopher who lived from 460 BC to 377BC. All of his work involving medicine is of great significance to not only historians, but doctors too. The books written by him, or people who believed in his research, are highly important too because they are the first examples of Greek medical and what it was based upon. There were two earlier philosophers who aided Hippocrates in his work. One was Pythagoras, and he taught that a healthy body was one which was in perfect balance. Another one was Alcmaeon of Croton, who was one of Pythagoras' pupils. He argued that a healthy body had the right balance of hot and cold, wet and dry within it. Any obvious things that were out of balance (like a high temperature) was a sign that the human was ill....

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