Hippocratesnoun
/hɪˈpɒk.rə.tiːz//hɪˈpɑː.krə.tiːz/an ancient Greek scientist who studied and taught medicine:
The Hippocratic oath is based on the ideals of Hippocrates, a Greek physician.
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- In 360 BC, Hippocrates , the father of medicine, wrote about scurvy.
- From two to three thousand years ago, fatal malaria was described in Homer's Iliad, and then in the writings of Plato, Aristotle and Hippocrates.
- In ancient Greece, Hippocrates recorded tuberculosis as the most widespread disease and almost always fatal.
- Hippocrates called olive oil the "great therapeutic".
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Ancient history: before 500 AD