Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, enemy of superstition, pioneer of rationality and fount of eternal wisdom. Statues and drawings show him with a furrowed brow, thinking hard about ...

A statue of the physician Hippocrates stands in the city where he died: Larissa, Greece. ... Hippocrates of Kos was a Greek physician who lived from about 460 B.C. to 375 B.C., ...

The statue came to mind repeatedly as I read M. Gregg Bloche's "The Hippocratic Myth," in which he argues that the ethical legacy of Hippocrates, a professional inheritance as carefully ...

Hippocrates described unidentified parasitic worms in his medical texts 2,500 years ago. Ancient human poop just revealed which ones.

Li Shizhen was an outstanding Chinese medical scientist during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). He compiled the Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia Medica), the most complete and comprehensive ...