Students of medicine today are taught basic principles of the practice of medicine first laid out by Hippocrates thousands of years ago.
ANY discussion about history in medicine would not be complete without talking about one man. He is known as the founder of medicine because he was the first to drag medicine out of the quagmire of superstition and spirituality rampant in ancient times and make it a science based on observation and the study of the human body. He is none other than Hippocrates.
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