Hippocrates (460 BC-377 BC) was the most famous figure in Greek medicine and associated with the cult of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing. He was borne in Greece. After studying medicine under his father Heraclides, he seems to have spent most of his life travelling around Greece.
Hippocrates is referred to as the father of medicine in recognition of his lasting contribution to the field as the founder of Hippocrates school of medicine. He is credited with being the first physician to reject superstition and beliefs that held the notion that supernatural or divine force were the cause of illness.
The Hippocratic Corpus or the collected writings attributed to Hippocrates contain about 60 works on a varity of medical topics including diagnosis, epidemics, obstetrics, pediatrics, nutrition and surgery. However, it is assumed they were written by several writers.
Hippocrates is best known as the author of the Hippocrates oath, a code of ethics for physicians, which is still taken by many modern medical schools
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