Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Few details of his life are known to us. It seems that he was the son of a physician and that he traveled widely in Greece and Asia Minor, teaching and practicing his art of medicine. The Hippocratic Collection of writing is generally attributed to him but it is more likely that it constituted a library of the medical school at Kos where he taught. That collection deals with clinical subjects, anatomy, diseases of women and the famous Hippocratic Oath which is sworn to by modern physicians. This reproduction comes directly from a reproduction cast from the marble original.