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When Hippocrates lived | 400 years before the birth of Christ |
Known as the Father of Medicine | Hippocrates |
Method of healing in Hippocrates day | Say magic words over the sick person |
Elements believed to match fluids in the body | Earth, air, fire, water |
Why they carried sick people to the temple | They thought Aesculapius would heal them. |
Illnesses described by Hippocrates | pneumonia, tetanus, tuberculosis, arthritis, mumps, malaria |
What Hippocrates thought about the human body | It could heal itself. |
How Hippocrates treated illnesses | He gave only a pain reliever. |
Code of ethics for doctors | Hippocratic Oath |
The length of his life | Eighty-three years |