The ancient Greek doctor born on the island of Kos in the 5th century BCE, revered as the 'Father of Western Medicine' who separated medicine from superstition, was:
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Hippocrates
- Step 1: Hippocrates founded the Hippocratic School of Medicine, teaching that disease resulted from natural physical imbalances (the four humors) rather than divine curses.
- Step 2: His followers compiled the Hippocratic Corpus and established medical ethics through the Hippocratic Oath, which obligates physicians to act in the best interest of patients and preserve confidentiality.
Answer
Hippocrates
Why not the others: 'Galen' Galen of Pergamum was a prominent 2nd-century CE Roman-era Greek physician whose anatomical treatises dominated medieval European medicine; 'Herodotus' Herodotus was the 5th-century BCE author of 'The Histories', known as the 'Father of History'; 'Aristotle' Aristotle was the philosopher and polymath who established early biological classification and formal logic.
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