The greatest doctor of ancient times
Subtitle: Hippocrates and his oath
By: Mary Gow.
Series: Great minds of ancient science and math
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780766031180
Subjects: Hippocrates -- Juvenile literature; Medicine, Greek and Roman -- Juvenile literature; Physicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Seeking Hippocrates; title: Hippocrates of Kos; title: Magic and medicine; title: The hippocratic corpus; title: Patients and treatments; title: The oath; title: Snakes and sanctuaries; title: The father of medicine.