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The Father of Modern Medicine

( Hippocrates, a physician in Greece around 430 B.C., was

the father of modern medicine. There were physicians before
Hippocrates, but his ideas about medicine and the body were

very different from those of the other doctors of his time. At
5 the time, it was believed that diseases were caused by angry

gods or spirits. Hippocrates, however, believed that there were
natural causes for every disease. He was also the first doctor to

study the human body in detail. From his studies, he identified
many diseases, and he was the first doctor to claim that our

10 thoughts come from our brains. Before that, people believed
that our thoughts and feelings came from our hearts.

( Hippocrates’s greatest accomplishment was the
Hippocratic Oath. Hippocrates understood that doctors

held great power over their patients. He worried that some
15 doctors would not use this power properly. So, he developed

a promise. It said that doctors would only work to help their
patients, never to hurt them. He made all of his students take

his oath. Even today, all new doctors take the Hippocratic Oath.

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