Fathers of Biology (Classic Reprint)

Hippocrates, who was called with affectionate veneration by his successors the divine old man, and who has been justly known to posterity as the Father of Medicine. He was probably born about 470 B.C., and, according to all accounts, appears to have reached the advanced age of ninety years or more. He must, therefore, have lived during a period of Greek history which was characterized by great intellectual activity; for he had, as his contemporaries, Pericles the famous statesman; the poets Eschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, A ristophanes, and Pindar; the philosopherS ocrates, with his disciples Xenophon and Plato; the historians Herodotus and Thucydides; and Phidias the unrivalled sculptor.
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