Hippocrates Hippocrates of Cos lived in-between 450 B.C and died around 380 B.C. He is known as the father of Biomedical and ancient medicine. Hippocrates developed the belief that your body must be balanced in order to be healthy. Blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile (or sometimes serum) was what he belived made up the human body. Hippocrates wrote the Corpus Hippocraticum, which is the equivalence of a modern day online Medical encyclopedia. Additionally he wrote over 20 different books consisting of Fractures, Injuries to the head, law, instruments of deduction, aphorisms, surgery, and even on air and water. Also he had treatments, which sometimes worked, and other times were weird. He received results like Vitamin C is the …show more content…
The biographer Soranus of Ephesus is the closes background to Hippocrates life. Some scalars believe that he acquired knowledge of medicine from his father and grandfather. Hippocrates had two kids Draco and Thessalus who were also students to Hippocrates. Hippocrates was one of the first people to believe that diseases were naturally accruing and not the wrath of angry gods. "To eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness." (Hippocrates) Is common sense known but he helped people believe a full stomach can help with …show more content…
Zeno of Elea started to make paradoxes like “A flying arrow is always at rest, because everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest so the flying arrow is therefore motionless.”(Plato) Anaxagoras figured out that light reflecting on the moon causes an eclipse. Aristotle came up with the idea of an atom makes up everything. Even Plato founded his new academy in Athens. Hippocrates had a lot of competition to become famous but he used his knowledge of medicine to be remembered in the world of saving lives. Hippocrates had many medical diseases and conditions attributed to him. He has been credited with the description of clubbing of fingers, which is also known as “Hippocratic fingers”. The part of your brain known as the Hippocampus is wear your memory is stored. Supposedly Hippocrates had such a great memory they named that part of the brain after him. Even on the moon a lunar crater has been named in honor of