HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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“I will tell everybody about your illness.”
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“I see that you got sick after eating that meat.”
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“You must let me try this experiment on you.”
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“You are sick because the gods are angry at you.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hippocrates is considered to be the father of modern medicine because in his books, which are more than 70. He described in a scientific manner, many diseases and their treatment after detailed observation. He lived about 2400 years ago.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hippocratic Theory and Practices Hippocrates believed that a body became ill when there was an imbalance in the four senses of humor: blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm. Medicine therefore aimed to restore this balance.
Detailed explanation-3: -The followers of Hippocrates believed that disease had natural causes and that it could be cured by rational methods. Religious belief and rational explanations closely interwoven and existed alongside one another. The earliest doctors were often priests, some of whom were later revered as gods.
Detailed explanation-4: -Aristotle’s’ zoology and the classification of species was his greatest contribution to the history of biology, the first known attempt to classify animals into groups according to their behavior and, most importantly, by the similarities and differences between their physiologies.
Detailed explanation-5: -He is known for having written the Histories – a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars. Herodotus was the first writer to perform systematic investigation of historical events. He is referred to as “The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero.