The greatest doctor of ancient times

By Mary Gow

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Greece, biography, Physicians, juvenile literature, Physicians, Biography, Greece, juvenile literature, Hippocrates, Greek and Roman Medicine, Medicine, Medicine, juvenile literature

Description: "A biography of ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. His assumptions that diseases and cures came from nature, not the gods, and that a physician could treat a patient using knowledge obtained from experience or medical texts still form the basis of modern medicine"--Provided by publisher.