Hippocrates Archive

Love Sickness – Disease Feared During The Middle Ages

Why Was Lovesickness A Feared Disease During The Middle Ages?

AncientPages.com | February 8, 2018

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Being in love is considered a normal condition today, but this was not the case not so long ago. During the Middle Ages,

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Why Was It Necessary For Great Physician Hippocrates To Eat Earwax?

AncientPages.com | August 14, 2017

AncientPages.com - Was it really necessary for great physician Hippocrates to eat earwax? Why did he do it? Hippocrates of Kos (c 360-375 BC) was known as the Father

Hippocrates Didn’t Write The Oath, So Why Is He The Father Of Medicine?

AncientPages.com | October 7, 2015

AncientPages.com - Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, enemy of superstition, pioneer of rationality and fount of eternal wisdom. Statues and drawings show him with a furrowed brow,