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Greek physician, often called the father of
medicine. Important Hippocratic ideas include
cleanliness (for patients and physicians),
moderation in eating and drinking, letting
nature take its course, and living where the
air is good. He was born and practised on the
island of Kos and died at Larissa. He is
known to have discovered aspirin in willow
bark. The Corpus Hippocraticum, a group of
some 70 works, is attributed to him but was
probably not written by him, although the
works outline his approach to medicine. They
include Aphorisms and the Hippocratic Oath,
which embodies the essence of medical ethics.
He believed that health was the result of the
`humours' of the body being in balance;
imbalance caused disease. These ideas were
later adopted by Galen.