Ancient Greek physician traditionally regarded as the father of medicine — the figure who separated medicine from superstition and magic, basing it on clinical observation and natural causes.
Naturalistic medicine: diseases have natural causes — not divine punishment or demonic possession. Clinical observation: systematic observation and recording of symptoms. The Hippocratic Corpus: a collection of medical texts encoding clinical experience. The Hippocratic Oath: the ethical foundation of medical practice. Prognosis: predicting the course of disease from observation.
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