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HIPPOCRATES BUST 23" HIGH
ITEM NUMBER: BEZHC1
SIZE: 23" HIGH
FEATURED FINISH: AS SHOWN
MEDIUM: BONDED STONE
SCULPTOR: ELEGANZA
SAFE FOR OUTDOOR USE?: T
SHIPPING AND HANDLING FEE: $32.95
TIME TO SHIP: MADE TO ORDER, SHIPS IN 2-3 WEEKS
PRICE: $ 644.00
Bust of Hippocrates(2nd century B.C.) - National Museum, Athens - 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.Hippocrates was knowledgeable in the natural sciences including chemistry, physics, and biology. Hippocrates was a physician and scientist. Hippocrates was responsible for shifting the medical practice from religious beliefs to scientific medicine. He changed the view that pain and illness were caused by demonic possession or evils spirits and exorcism was the only cure, to the cause of illness is mostly a scientific and treatment with natural medicines and special care was the proper cure. Hippocrates felt that every living thing contained certain mixtures of the four primary elements, earth, air, fire and water, called humours. These humours were established by the idea of Essentialism. These humours consisted of black bile, phlegm, yellow, and blood. When one of the humours was out of place, sickness would be the result. In order to stop the illness, the error in the humours had to be fixed. Though Hippocrates started the work of the humours, this was not Hippocrates’ primary achievement. Hippocrates lived in Greece from 460 to 377 BC.This bust of Hippocrates is the wonderful gift of any physician, or medical scientist or practitioner.
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