Hippocrates Research Paper

Hippocrates was a 90-year-old man when he died living in the timeframe of 460 BC to 377 BC. Hippocrates was born in a town from Greece called Larissa (Hippocrates Biography). Hippocrates was a Greek philosopher and physician who have been called ‘the father of medicine’. He and his followers dismissed the idea that illness was simply caused or cured by superstitions, spirits or gods. Instead, he argued for a rational approach to medical treatment based on close observation of the individual patient. However, so little is known about the man himself that some scholars have questioned whether he was a real person at all. In Hippocatic medicine, effective treatment relied on considering the patient as a whole. Diet, sleep, work and exercise were …show more content…
Democritus was born in Abdera, Thrace, in the 5th century BC. He travelled to the East while being the student of famous philosophers. His philosophical ideas and the establishment of particles, "the atoms", gave him a leading position in world history. However, his medical knowledge was vast especially in the field of pediatric pharmacology. Numerous are also the reports of his passion for anatomy. Democritus' views regarding the issue of Human Nature and Anatomy are depicted in a letter he sent to Hippocrates of Kos. He died in old age, possibly of infection after having totally neglected his personal hygiene (Democritus.). Before Hippocrates found reasoning for why people would get ill, everyone though that it was the Gods making them ill because they have done something wrong, but Hippocrates proved that wrong. Hippocrates showed that the reason we become ill is from bacteria, the environment, and things in our surroundings. This plays a huge impact on our life now because now we can fine cures and antibiotics to help keep us healthy. If Hippocrates never found reasoning for illness then we would most likely still be praying to the Gods asking them to heal us