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Image gallery of gods and goddesses of medicine, hero physicians,healers and medical instruments in ancient Greece . Hippocrates, the father of (rational) medicine is credited with turning away from divine notions and superstitious beliefs of medicine. He used observation of the body as a basis for medical knowledge. Hippocratic medicine and in general ancient Hellenic medicine not only used careful observation but interpreted their pathologic and physiologic meaning too. Hippocrates has started medical research and developed medicine as a science and later on many other physicians in antiquity continued this process. In the diagnosis of heart diseases palpation is still essential and palpation itself has been the object of modern heart...
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