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Term Paper Title	Hippocrates, The Father Of Medicine
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Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine

     Hippocrates, greatest physician of antiquity, is regarded as the father
of medicine.  Born on the island of Kos, Greece in the year 460 b.c., says the
earliest biography written by Soranus of Ephesus in the a third century a.d.
Although a native of Kos he was forced to leave the island as the result of a
fire for which he was blamed.  He traveled to many other islands to practice
medicine.  Most of the cases in the two books of Epidemics considered to be
genuine are located at Thasos, a small island in the North Aegean Sea, and at
Abdera, a town on the adjacent mainland; but there are also references to
Cyzicus, on the south coast of the Sea of Marmara, and to Larisa and Meliboea in
Thessaly.   He died, according to tradition, in Larissa, Greece; little else is
known about him.  His name is associated wioth the Hippocratic Oath, though he
probably is not the author of the document.  In fact, of the approximately 70
works ascribed to him in the Hippocratic Collection, Hippocrates may actually
have written about six of them.  The Hippocratic Collection probably is the
remnant of the medical library of the famous Kos school of medicine.  His
teachings, sense of detachment, and ability to make direct, clinical
observations probably influenced the other...

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