WU Jun, YE Dong-qing. The founder of environment and disease theory:Hippocrates[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION, 2020, 24(2): 245-248. doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.02.024
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WU Jun, YE Dong-qing. The founder of environment and disease theory:Hippocrates[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION, 2020, 24(2): 245-248. doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.02.024
WU Jun, YE Dong-qing. The founder of environment and disease theory:Hippocrates[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION, 2020, 24(2): 245-248. doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.02.024
Citation:
WU Jun, YE Dong-qing. The founder of environment and disease theory:Hippocrates[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION, 2020, 24(2): 245-248. doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.02.024
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Major Antoimmune Diseases, Hefei 230032, China
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The Chinese National High Level Personnel Special Support Plan
Hippocrates(460-370 BC) is a famous doctor in ancient Greece and the founder of Western medicine. He is a "landmark" in the long history of human medicine and is considered as the first epidemiologist in history. He created the "Four Body Fluids" theory of medicine, freeing human medicine from theology and entering the natural medical model; His hard work on Airs, Waters, and Places, laid the epidemiological ideological foundation for more than 2 000 years; He was praised for his noble medical ethics, and his "Hippocrates Oath" has been extolled to today; he and his disciples have integrated the masterpiece "Hippocrates Collection" and passed on a generation of doctors. Therefore, Hippocrates is now known as the western "father of medicine".
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