Show I Hippocrates Separated S p r Medicine From Religion ReH ion The history of medicine mt is as old as ns man himself Primitive man had hart diseases more than we have declares a writer tar in inthe inthe Inthe the Washington Post When his puny efforts to conquer them failed he conceived the notion that they were curses from his gods That idea hung on for centuries Ancient doctors used Some drugs but prayer and sacrifices in fa tem tem- temples temples temples ples of healing were mainly relied on It was a Greek Hippocrates who separated medicine from reli reli- gion He inaugurated the practice of studying diseases and diagnosing ills Because of his high ideals he has fittingly been dubbed The Father of Medicine The Oath of ot Hippocrates is taken by b every medical student Next to Hippocrates Galen a Roman was the greatest of the an an- He studied the body re reported re- re reported ported the functions of its various re-I re parts His ideas lived and kept medicine alive for some years after his death When the revival of medicine came in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries it was the teachings of Galen that doctors used as a Jump Jump- off ing-off place |