Ancient Greece - Hippocrates

Ancient Greece

Hippocrates

• Lived between c. 460 BC and c. 377 BC
• Had 60 books in a collection
• Believed that religion and medecine shouldn't be linked
• Argued that it wasn't the Gods who made people ill
• He discovered: The Four Humours, The Hippocratic Oath and contributed to the programme of health

The Hippocratic Oath:

A promise made by doctors to Asclepius, the Greek God of healing, and his daughters. Most doctors still have…