Who is the father of medicine

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Over the years, even to this day, the Greek physician, Hippocrates has been referred to as the Father of Medicine. That is not true. More than 2000 years before Hippocrates was born, a Black Egyptian was practising medicine and also writing on the subject. His name…Imhotep. It is safe to regard Imhotep as the world’s first genius because of his immense contributions to humanity and different fields of study, especially medicine, engineering, and architecture. One of the most intelligent humans who ever lived, Imhotep is notable for drawing the architectural designs used in building one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Interestingly, it is the only Ancient Wonder that still stands to this day. This article seeks to prove that Imhotep, an African physician, is the real father of medicine and not Hippocrates as it’s widely believed. Contents • • • • • • • Who was Imhotep? Imhotep lived during the third dynasty of the old Egyptian Kingdom. This was during the reign of Pharaoh Djoser from about 2650 to 2575 BC. Imhotep occupied various positions and occupations in his lifetime. He functioned as an architect, a priest, a physician, a writer, an astronomer, a mathematician, and a philosopher. Imhotep was born in Gebelin, south of Egypt’s capital, Thebes. His father was an architect named Kanofer while his mother was Kheredu-ankh, said to be the human daughter of the ram god, Banebdjedet. Imhotep has been described as the real Father of Medic...

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Written by Tel Asiado. Throughout his life Hippocrates traveled widely throughout Greece and Asia Minor teaching or practicing medicine. He presumably taught at the medical school at Cos quite frequently. Undoubtedly, Hippocrates was an historical figure, and a great physician who exercised a permanent influence on the development of medicine and on the ideals and ethics of a physician. Quotation "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food." - Hippocrates "It is necessary for a physician to know about nature, and be very eager to know, if he is going to perform any of his duties... what man is in relation to what he eats and drinks, and in relation to his habits generally, and what will be the effect of each upon each individual." - Hippocrates, On where the two worlds meet: a holistic approach to medicine. Early Life Little is known about the early life of Hippocrates. Historians tend to agree that he was born around the year 460 BC, on the Greek island of Cos (or Kos). Soranus of Ephesus, a second-century Greek gynecologist, and considered to be Hippocrates’ first biographer, wrote about his life but the contents of this biography and later lives were either traditional or imaginative. From the biographical accounting of Soranus: Hippocrates' father was Heraclides, a physician, and his mother was Praxitela, daughter of Tizane. He learned medicine from his father and grandfather, and studied other subjects with Democritus and Gorgias. He was probably traine...

Asclepius, Greek Asklepios, Latin Aesculapius, Greco-Roman god of Homer, in the Iliad, mentions him only as a skillful physician and the father of two Greek doctors at Troy, Machaon and Podalirius; in later times, however, he was honoured as a hero and eventually worshiped as a god. The cult began in Thessaly but spread to many parts of Greece. Because it was supposed that Asclepius effected cures of the sick in dreams, the practice of sleeping in his temples in bc his