Hippocrates
460 BCE – 370 BCE Greek physician
The father of medicine, who separated healing from superstition.
- Religion
- Greek polytheism, yet he insisted diseases had natural rather than divine causes.
- Affiliations
- Led a school of medicine on Kos. No secret society.
Hippocrates argued that illness comes from natural causes that can be studied, not from the gods. The body of writings tied to his school laid the groundwork for clinical observation and medical ethics. The Hippocratic Oath still frames the duties of physicians.