Greek philosopher Hippocrates.

Hippocrates is Greek physician, who is often called 'the father of medicine.' Despite the existence of an elaborate tradition surrounding his name, modern scholarship recognizes that actually very little is known about his life, his activities, or his writings, and what is known is based indirectly on authors who lived at least 200 years after his death. The only contemporaries or near contemporaries who mention him are Plato, Aristotle, and Menon, a pupil of Aristotle. …showed first 75 words of 724 total…

…showed last 75 words of 724 total…with some scholars attributing Fractures to grandfather Hippocrates.         The third group includes essays, incomplete works, and compilations representing highly speculative theories on physiology and disease. In contrast to this group are the polemical works Ancient Medicine and Sacred Disease (epilepsy), which attack the intrusion of hypothetical speculation into medicine and concepts of the divine origin of disease, respectively.         Finally, there are a large number of miscellaneous treatises that express the thought of various other schools.