Hippocrates was an ancient Greek physician born around 430 BC who is considered the father of modern medicine. He rejected superstition in favor of scientific observation and created standards for physicians. Hippocrates founded a medical school on the island of Cos and traveled throughout Greece practicing medicine. He authored around 70 medical works that comprised the Hippocratic Corpus, establishing medicine as a science based on theory and observation. Hippocrates studied anatomy, physiology and the causes of disease, believing illness was caused by imbalances of the four humors in the body. He is renowned for establishing high ethical standards through the Hippocratic Oath and writings on environmental influences, exercise and hygiene.

1. HISTORY OF
NATUROPATHY

2. HIPPOCRATES

3. • Hippocrates is perhaps history's most
famous physician.
• By rejecting superstition in favor of
scientific observation, by classifying
diseases, and by creating a set of moral
and professional standards for physicians,
he earned the title of 'Father of Medicine.'
The Father of Modern Medicine

4. PERSONAL LIFE
 Hippocrates lived between 430 and 370
B.C.
 He was born on the island of Cos,
Greece.
 He had been taught medicine by his
father Heracleides as well as by the most
famous teachers of that time.

5.  Hippocrates made his career as a house-
to-house physician.
 He had founded the Coyan Medical
School that later on competed with the
Knidean Medical School.
 For a long time he practiced in Thrace and
died in old age in Larissa in Thessaly.

6. HIS WORK
 Hippocrates wrote some seventy books
which is widely known as the Hippocratic
Corpus.
 During his era medicine became a science
and the profession had to be underpinned
with logic and theory.
 The human body was thought to consist of
four humors - yellow bile, blood, phlegm,
and black bile.
 They were characterized by the same
properties - dry, hot, wet and cold as the
four elements - fire, air, water, and earth.

7.  One generalized and of course incorrect
theory was that disease was due to an
imbalance of the fluid portions of the body.
 Hippocrates studied physiology, anatomy
and evident, immediate and obscure
causes of disease.
 He observed his patients and made his
conclusions by constantly understanding
the symptom changes and made a note of
them

8. Of his many writings two of the best were
 Airs, Waters and Places - which is a
description of the influence of the
environment on health and disease.
 Regimen – which explains the importance
of exercise, hygiene and elimination

9. • He also gave the world the Hippocratic
Oath, a code of ethics for physicians which
is still taken by graduates at many modern
medical schools.