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What does Hippocrates mean?

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Proper noun
  1. An Ancient Greek male given name, notably borne by Hippocrates of Cos, an Ancient Greek physician, circa 5th century BC, sometimes called the "father of medicine."
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Significantly, Hippocrates was the only author in the medical canon to be appreciated even by the iconoclastic iatrochemists.
Hippocrates sought relief from his baldness by rubbing pigeon dung all over his head.
During the second Punic war between Rome and Carthage, Syracuse was held by the mercenary Hippocrates for the Carthaginians.
To illustrate with one example, the work of Hippocrates on the quadrature of lunes is only known to us through Eudemus's History of Geometry.
We do not know who wrote most of them but they cover a time span of 150 years so they could not have all been written by Hippocrates.
It is said that Hippocrates brewed leaves from the willow tree to ease the pain of childbirth.

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