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Why Were Hippocrates And Galen Influential For So Long?
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Why Were Hippocrates And Galen Influential For So Long? Hippocrates (460? - 370? B.C.) is acknowledged as the father of modern medicine. He was born on the island of Kos, and taught medicine there before dying in Larissa. He is known as the founder of holistic medicine, because he was the first to attribute illness to be one of the four elements - fire, water, earth, and air - rather than an affliction given by the gods. However, locals believed Hippocrates was a descendant of Asklepios, god of medicine. Hippocrates himself was a good example of his philosophy: he died aged 104. He is associated with the Hippocratic Oath and also the Hippocratic Corpus. Galen was a Greek, who was born in Pergamum in AD 129. He was firstly a doctor to Roman Gladiators. This work gave him plenty of opportunity to study the inside of the human body - through wounds....
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