Hippocrates whole statue

Hippocrates of Kos, born around 460 BCE and active in the late fifth and early fourth centuries, is rightly called the father of Western medicine. He founded a school of medicine on his native island that separated the practice from the priestcraft of the Asclepieia and grounded it in observation, prognosis, and the careful taking of histories. The Hippocratic Corpus, the seventy or so treatises gathered under his name in antiquity, set out the rational diagnosis that has been the backbone of medicine ever since. The full-length statue presents him as the philosophical physician — robe of the teacher, hand of the healer.