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Hippocrates

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The father of medicine, born at Cos, 460 B.C.; was a contemporary of Socrates and Plato; was of wide-spread renown as a physician; settled in Thessaly and died at Larissa advanced in years; no fewer than 60 writings are ascribed to him, but only a few are genuine.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hippocrates'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​h/hippocrates.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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