Hippocrates's Progression

Mankind has achieved a miraculous number of feats through inventions. They vary from the wheel, to paper, to roads. Certain inventions throughout the course of human history have been overly significant but none of them are as significant as the progression of medicine throughout civilizations which leads to modern medicine and when mentioning the progression, one must mention Ancient Greece. Medicine did not start out to where it is today. It took thousands of years for medicine to develop to what it became. Medicine is not just taking a pill and feeling better. Instead, it can be many different practices. Some of the earliest forms of medicine were herbology, acupuncture and prayer. The greatest period of Greek civilization began about
He discarded the idea that the angry gods punished people with disease by developing a scientific approach to treating patients. He taught physicians to pay close attention to the symptoms of their patients and give them the proper treatment based on those symptoms. Hippocrates urged people to eat healthy and exercise regularly. Some of his advice was bad because he believed that fresh fruits and vegetables were unhealthy. Despite his bad advice about food he did encourage the best exercise for inactive people and that was walking. One of the most significant things Hippocrates did was keep a record of all diseases he treated. These records are called case histories. “These case histories consisted of descriptions of patients, symptoms, diagnoses, treatments and outcomes.” In one of his case stories Hippocrates wrote, “In fractures and dislocations, the physician must make the extension as much as possible, for this is the most natural direction.” These case histories could be accessed by anyone who needed medical assistance. Most of these case histories were located in the library of Alexandria so most civilizations after Greece could access these records and expand on the knowledge of these case histories. Unfortunately, the library of Alexandria was burned down so most of those records were lost. Furthermore, Hippocrates created the Hippocratic oath which was where, “prospective physicians pledge to do no harm which was one way Hippocratic physicians stood out from other physicians around that