The other Hippocrates
This second Hippocrates, also known as ‘the father of medicine’, was born on the Greek Island of Kos in about 460 BCE. Unlike Hippocrates of Chios, he became a famous ambassador for medicine, despite strong opposition by Greek authorities. He was so dedicated that he even endured a twenty year prison sentence for his beliefs. Here he wrote well-known, medical books like The Complicated Body, which describes many of the things we know to be true today.
Hippocrates was also the first person to believe that diseases were caused naturally, rather than as a result of gods and superstitions. He separated medicine from religion
