Hippocrates, the Founder of Scientific Medicine

‘Of all the arts, the art of medicine is the most distinguished,’ declared Hippocrates, who first released it from the shackles of magic and religion. 

Engraving of Hippocrates by Peter Paul Rubens, 1638

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