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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.
Hippocrates was looked at as a teacher and physician. His name is in around sixty medical articles, most of these medical articles were not written by him. He is admired for his high standards of moral conduct in the practice of medicine, especially for the Hippocratic Oath, which was also written by someone else.
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.
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Hippocrates IV. According to Galen (Latin: Galenus), he was the son of Draco I, and the grandson of Hippocrates II; [3] he lived in the 4th century BC, and is said to have written some medical works. The Suda, which may be confused, makes him the son of Draco II, [4] (and therefore, the great-grandson of Hippocrates II), and the father of Draco ...
Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William ...
Hippocrates of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης, Hippokrátēs; c. 459 – 424 BC), the son of Ariphron, was a strategos of the Athenians in 424 BC, serving alongside Demosthenes. In the summer of 424, Hippocrates and Demosthenes set out from Athens to seize the long walls of Megara (which connected the city with its port Nisaea).
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. VI. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 419–427. Jouanna, Jacques; Allies, Neil (2012), van der Eijk, Philip (ed.), "THE LEGACY OF THE HIPPOCRATIC TREATISE THE NATURE OF MAN: THE THEORY OF THE FOUR HUMOURS", Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, Selected Papers, Brill, pp. 335–360.