Monday PSA: Hippocrates — Father of Medicine
If you talk about medicine and the history of medicine long enough, certain names are going to be mentioned: Galen, Osler, Harvey, and of course, Hippocrates. Hippocrates was the premier physician of Ancient Greek and is considered by many to be the “Father of Medicine.” The Hippocratic Oath is named after him (and was allegedly written by him).
Hippocrates had a great many followers and it’s often hard to tell which stories and sayings are rightfully attributed to him, or were really penned by one of his followers. This brief PSA on Hippocrates from Ben Casey #2 (Dell Comics, 1962) casts an uncritical eye on the legend of Hippocrates and should be taken with a grain of salt. The Wikipedia article on Hippocrates provides a more accurate account of his actual history.
Oddly, neither the PSA nor Wikipedia mentions his battle with Dr. Strange.
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November 6th, 2007 at 7:34 am
public service announcements are funny. I mean, at least the ones you show us. haha. hippocrates. I thought it would be a public service announcement warning us about something like they usually are.
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