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Hippocrates and Galen
The father of medicine, Hippocrates is associated with the oath all doctors must take and a method of dealing with disease that is based on a balance of four humors.
Hippocratic Corpus
Glossary entry on the Hippocratic Corpus.
4 Humors
When today's doctor prescribes an antibiotic to fight infection, he's trying to put the patient's body back in balance, just as the ancient doctors did when they balanced the body according to the theory of four humors.
Celsus
Celsus was a contemporary of the Emperor Tiberius who wrote about medicine.
Hippocrates
Hippocrates of Cos was a Greek physician is considered the father of medicine.
Philosophers Timeline
Chronological list of Greek and Roman philosophers and mathematicians with dates.