Hippocrates was a Greek physician who left a legacy that existed during his lifetime in classical Greece and continues today. His moral and ethical standards were the foundation of his teachings, along with his meticulous writings regarding the study of the human body. He firmly believed that ill health and disease were the result of a natural process that could be discovered and cured through careful clinical reasoning and observations. Hippocrates traveled throughout Greece teaching and describing the symptoms of diseases and taught doctors how to analyze and treat specific illnesses or diseases. Hippocrates' successes give him the respect of doctors and medical professionals around the world that continues today. Hippocrates was born on the Aegean island of Cos around the 5th century BC. He belonged to a wealthy family of doctors, who ensured that he received a good education. Although it is not known where he studied, it is known that Hippocrates studied physical education, reading, writing, spelling, music, singing and poetry for nine years before going to secondary school, where he spent two years of very thorough athletic training. and mental discipline. It is likely that Hippocrates went to study medicine under his father in a form of apprenticeship. This training is believed to have involved travel to mainland Greece, and possibly Egypt and Libya. (Notablebiographies.comHe-Ho/Hippocrates).Hippocrates, often called the “father of medicine,” was an early contributor to modern science. He was called the father of medicine because through his medical school he separated medical knowledge and practice from myth and superstition, basing them instead on facts, observation and clinic... at the center of the article... the world that continues today. The ideas of Hippocrates in the 5th century gave humanity “the gift of knowledge”. Hippocrates planted the seed, and subsequent generations of doctors and scientists have cultivated and refined those basic ideas into the most advanced medical practices of today. The knowledge of Hippocrates remains alive today thanks to his writings which were discovered 200 years after his death. Works Cited http://www.ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl./bbl/_hippocratic_oath http://www. faqs.org/health/bios/73Hippocrates-of-Cos http://historylearningsite.com http://www.notablebiographies.com/He-Ho/Hippocrates.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova /body/hippocratic-oath-today.html http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HippocratesGoldberg, Herbert S. Father of Medicine, Lincoln, NB 1963, 2006 Authors Choice Press, an imprint of iUniverse, Inc.