The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates (460-377 BC), the father of medicine, put a definitive stamp on the whole character of Greek medicine. Only the barest outline of the biography of Hippocrates emerges from the ancient writings. He was born on the...

Hippocrates of Chioswas a Greek merchant turned mathematician who wrote the first textbook on geometry. He is also noted for his efforts in elucidating the properties of circles and the quadrature of the lune. Despite turning to mathematics later in...

Hippocrates was a famous Greek physician who is widely known as the "Father of Medicine." Although little is known about his life, a few facts are considered accurate. Hippocrates was born on the Greek island of Cos around 460 b.c. to a family of...

HIPPOCRATES (460?–380? BCE) was a celebrated Greek physician, called the "father of medicine." In spite of his reputation as the founder of scientific medicine, the embodiment of medical wisdom, and the exemplar of the ideal...

c. 470-c. 410 B.C. Greek Mathematician Designated as Hippocrates of Chios to distinguish him from the better-known physician of the same name, Hippocrates has been cited as the greatest mathematician of the fifth century B.C. He wrote the first...

c. 460-c. 375 B.C. Greek Physician and Philosopher Hippocrates is rightly called the "Father of Medicine. " His own writings and writings attributed to him, as well as legends about him and the oath of medical ethics that bears his name,...

Hippocrates and the Hippocratic Corpus(B. 460 Bce) Hippocrates, who came from the Aegean island of Cos, is said to have been born in 460 BCE. His legendary status as the father of medicine is secure—unfortunately, just about everything else...

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According to Hippocrates, doctors are supposed to do no harm. But that doesn't mean they can't lock up their patients.A trio of doctors argue in a paper published in an international medical journal Monday that people who refuse treatment for a frighteningly drug-resistant form of...

There is a reason why reports of a rare strain of tuberculosis attracted worldwide attention: a history as scary as the plague.More than 4,000 years ago, tuberculosis killed an Egyptian whose mummified remains were dug up; the case was first described in 1910. Hippocrates called...

There's an open secret in medicine: Patients lie.They lie about how much they smoke and whether they're taking their medicine. They understate how much they drink and overstate how much they exercise. They feign symptoms to get appointments quicker and ask doctors to hide the...