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(2nd century B.C.) - National Museum, Athens |
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Bonded White Marble onTravertine Base $699 (less Internet discount of $104) = $595 (freight $58) Reproduced exactly like the original with the tip of the nose slightly broken. |
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"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds
ignorance." Hippocrates (460-370 BC) |
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Hippocrates, a Greek physician (circa 460 B.C. to 377 B.C.) is
traditionally revered as the father of medicine. Few details
of his life are known to us. It seems that he was the son of
a physician and that he traveled widely in Greece and Asia Minor,
teaching and practicing his art of medicine. The Hippocratic
Collection of writing is generally attributed to him but it is
more likely that it constituted a library of the medical school
at Kos where he taught. That collection deals with clinical subjects,
anatomy, diseases of women and the famous Hippocratic Oath which
is sworn to by modern physicians. This reproduction comes directly from a reproduction cast from the marble original. The original was found near the Odeon on the island of Kos. |
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