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The Greek physician Hippokrates (460?-375 B.C.) is regarded as the founder of medicine as an empirical science. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, the Hippocratic oath bound the physicians to an unreserved preservation of human life, still today the basis of medical professional ethics.

The Greek physician Hippokrates (460?–375 B.C.) is regarded as the founder of medicine as an empirical science. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, the Hippocratic oath bound the physicians to an unreserved preservation of human life, still today the basis of medical professional ethics. (M 41386)