Hippocrates of Cos (c460-377 or 359 BC) Ancient

Hippocrates of Cos (c460-377 or 359 BC) Ancient Greek physician. The Father of Medicine who laid the foundations of a scientific basis for medicine. He taught that the four humours (blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile) were the main seats of disease. Engraving

Basis Bile Foundations Hippocrates Humours Laid Seats Taught

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