The Origin of Medical Practice - Introduction - 1969

Charles S McMichael

Historians have long assumed the origin of modern medical practice occurred in the Fourth Century B.C. HIPPOCRATES is the accepted Father of Medicine. Students of medical history have been taught that competent medical procedures - including anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, surgery, and gynecology - are of comparatively recent development. History books disdainfully dismiss the ancient era prior to Hippocratic Greece. Certainly, every medical textbook describes it as a medically ignorant and obsolete age. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library