How Did Hippocrates Advance Modern Medicine

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How did Hippocrates advance modern medicine? Hippocrates advanced medicine by being the first to trace diseases to a natural and understandable cause. He also recognizes nature as all-sufficient for healing and physicians as only her servants. He was the father of medicine for being the one to advance modern medicine.

Also, in paragraph 2, sentence 3 staits," He was also courageous enough to admit his limitations and his failures." Hippocrates would tell the truth when maybe some people wouldn't tell the truth because he wanted for people to know what happened. In paragraph 3, sentence 1 it staits " Hippocrates based his conclusions on the appearance, and in this way began a new era." This was one way he advanced

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