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Father of Medicine: Hippocrates and Medicine Today

Introduction

Hippocrates lived in an era of high cultural rise of ancient Greece and was a contemporary of Socrates and Plato . He was born in Meropis on the island of Kos in 460 BC. His ancestors on the mother went back to Fenarety Heraclides, that is, the descendants of Heracles. Hippocrates, the father also belonged to a noble family Asclepiadae, whose ancestor was Asclepius - Greek god of medicine. Hippocrates, regarded as a direct, 17th descendant of Asclepius in a row (Smith, 21).

In early times, medicine was a family affair, it was cultivated among the members of certain families and transmitted from father to son. Therefore, among the teachers of Hippocrates called his father Heraclides - well-known doctor, a certain Gerodika, a major physical therapist and teacher of gymnastics, as well as George sophist and philosopher Democritus . Thus, except for medical, Hippocrates was also an excellent general education. He considered medicine is not only applied but also a philosophical science. Moreover, he attributed to the art of medicine.

Hippocrates: Founder of the first medical system

In the year 460 (BC) was born on the Greek island of Kos founder of the first medical system, Hippocrates. Hippocrates died at the advanced age of 107 years. Deep Observer, wrote numerous treaties to which collected all the positive of medical knowledge of ancient civilizations, suppressing what were nothing more than superstition (Simmons, 12). His main reform was to change the sort attributed to the gods the phenomena that occur in the human body, showing that it depends on the life force and that biological phenomena are subject to natural laws and permanent. For Hippocrates, health is a state of perfect harmony is the balance of forces. The disease is responsible for restoring the disturbed equilibrium is thus a reaction of repair. Health and disease are the two functions have the same goal, the preservation of life. Recognizing that health is the most precious heritage that humans possess, Hippocrates launches aphorism which states (Simmons, 15):

"Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" (Simmons, 15).

Already in the first volume of his works says: "I maintain that the investigations into the scheme is one of the goals of medicine more worthy of attention. Will contribute much both to the means of restoring health to the sick and the conservation of the same for people who enjoy it. " The physician, Hippocrates said, does not cure the disease. Its role must be the interpreter and servant of Nature. Is this Medicatrix-Nature-that healing takes place, the medicine does more than help, and only then cure (National Library of Medicine, 63).

In his works, Hippocrates explains the basis of disease and health, that modern science is only beginning to discover. For example, he said, "Give me fever and I will cure any disease." Having long been opposed as an enemy, the fever is now officially recognized as a process of self-defense of the organism. For Hippocrates, the ...