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Research Paper On Hippocrates

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Hippocrates Hippocrates is acknowledged as the father of modern medicine. He was born on the island of Kos in 460 BC, just off the Ionian coast near Halicarnassus, island of Greece, and taught medicine there before dying in Larissa 370 B.C. which legends places him in the family line of the Roman hero god Hercules. Hippocrates was the son of Heracleides and Praxithea and his family's wealth provided him an education such as writing, spelling, music, reading, poetry, and singing. He was an apprentice, to learn a trade through work experience, with his father who was a doctor and they traveled the world studying different medical practices in places such as Egypt, Libya, and the Greek mainlands. He based his medical practice on observations

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