Hippocrates: the Father of Medicine

Owing to the lapse of centuries, very little is known with certainty of the life of Hippocrates, a Greek philosopher and writer, who was called with affectionate veneration by his successors "the divine old man," and who has been justly known to posterity as "the Father of Medicine."

Although Hippocrates at first studied medicine under his father, he had afterwards for his teachers Gorgias and Democritus, both of classic fame, and Herodicus, who is known as the first person who applied gymnastic exercises to the cure of diseases...