Greek physician who laid the foundations of scientific medicine by freeing medical study from the constraints of philosophical speculation and superstition. He is traditionally but inaccurately considered the author of the Hippocratic oath. 希波克拉底希臘名醫(yī),通過把醫(yī)學(xué)研究從學(xué)推斷和迷信中解放出來來奠定了科學(xué)的醫(yī)學(xué)的基礎(chǔ),傳統(tǒng)上認(rèn)為他是《希波克拉底誓言》的作者,但這一說法不準(zhǔn)確