Greek Physicians Begin Scientific Practice of Medicine
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Science, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Doctors, Physicians, Nurses, Epidemics, Diseases, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Greece
- Date: c. 500-400
Article abstract: Greek physicians developed the scientific practice of medicine, allowing reason to triumph over superstition in their search for knowledge about disease and its treatment.
Summary of Event
One of the great accomplishments of the ancient Greek world was the development in the late fifth century b.c.e. of the scientific practice of medicine. Doctoring is as old as civilization itself, but only when the Greeks developed a purely rational way of looking at the world did medicine become a science.
Early Greek thought resembles that of...
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