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Hippocrates

Hippocrates

c. 460–c. 370 BCE

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Traditional father of Western medicine — observation, prognosis, and the ethic of doing no harm, taught historically not clinically.

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  1. c. 460 BCEpersonal

    Born on Kos

  2. c. 440–400 BCEwork

    Traveled and taught widely

  3. c. 420s BCEhighlight

    Mentioned by Plato

  4. c. 400 BCEwork

    Established medicine as distinct profession

  5. c. 400 BCEhighlight

    Advanced natural theory of disease

  6. c. 390 BCEwork

    Described clinical signs still used today

  7. c. 380 BCEwork

    Developed crisis theory and passive therapy

  8. c. 370 BCEdeath

    Death in Larissa

  9. c. 300–100 BCElegacy

    Hippocratic Corpus assembled

  10. ongoinglegacy

    Hippocratic Oath enduring influence

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