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Hippocrates (Greek: Ἱπποκράτης) was the name of several physicians in the time of Ancient Greece, some of whom were in the same family as the celebrated Hippocrates of Kos (Hippocrates II). Hippocrates I. The grandfather of Hippocrates II.
Hippocrates of Kos (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ k r ə t iː z /, Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, romanized: Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
Greek: physician of the Empiric school: Herophilus: 3rd century BCE: Greek: deemed to be the first anatomist: Hicesius: 1st century BCE: Greek: head of a medical school established at Smyrna Hippocrates: 5th century BCE: Greek "Father of Medicine", wrote the Hippocratic Corpus: Irynachet: 22nd century BCE: Egyptian: senior physician of the ...
Hippocrates, known as the "Father of Modern Medicine", [4] established a medical school at Cos and is the most important figure in ancient Greek medicine. [5] Hippocrates and his students documented numerous illnesses in the Hippocratic Corpus , and developed the Hippocratic Oath for physicians, which is still in use today.
Hippocrates. The treatise On Ancient Medicine (Greek: Περὶ Ἀρχαίας Ἰατρικῆς; Latin: De vetere medicina) is perhaps the most intriguing and compelling work of the Hippocratic Corpus. The Corpus itself is a collection of about sixty writings covering all areas of medical thought and practice.
Draco (or Dracon, Greek: Δράκον) was the name of several physicians in the family of Hippocrates. Draco I. Lived 5th to 4th centuries BC, was the son of Hippocrates, the famous physician (Hippocrates II). He was the brother of Thessalus. [1] Galen tells us that some of the writings of Hippocrates was attributed to his son Draco. Draco II.
Hippocrates was born c. 460 BCE on the Greek island of Kos. [5] The verifiable details of his life are few, despite centuries of hagiographic accounts. [6] According to tradition, Hippocrates was born into a hereditary order of priest-like physicians known as Asclepiads.
William Harvey (1578–1657) — English physician, described the circulatory system; Henry Heimlich (1920–2016) — inventor of the Heimlich maneuver and the Vietnam War-era chest drain valve; Orvan Hess (1906–2002) — fetal heart monitor and first successful use of penicillin; Hippocrates (c. 460 –370 BCE) — Greek father of medicine