The founder of environment and disease theory：Hippocrates / 中华疾病控制杂志

ABSTRACT

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”.