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===Hellenistic medicine=== There was not a defined societal structure for healthcare during the age of Hippocrates.<ref name="ReferenceA">Kleisiaris CF, Sfakianakis C, Papathanasiou IV. Health care practices in ancient Greece: The Hippocratic ideal. J Med Ethics Hist Med. 2014 Mar 15;7:6. PMID 25512827; PMCID: PMC4263393.</ref> At that time, society was not organized and knowledgeable as people still relied on pure religious reasoning to explain illnesses.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Hippocrates introduced the first healthcare system based on science and clinical protocols.<ref name="Kleisiaris 6">{{Cite journal |last1=Kleisiaris |first1=Christos F. |last2=Sfakianakis |first2=Chrisanthos |last3=Papathanasiou |first3=Ioanna V. |date=2014-03-15 |title=Health care practices in ancient Greece: The Hippocratic ideal |journal=Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine |volume=7 |pages=6 |issn=2008-0387 |pmc=4263393 |pmid=25512827}}</ref> Hippocrates' theories about physics and medicine helped pave the way in creating an organized medical structure for society.<ref name="Kleisiaris 6"/> In [[medicine]], [[Hippocrates]] (c. 460–370 BCE) and his followers were the first to describe many diseases and medical conditions and developed the [[Hippocratic Oath]] for physicians, still relevant and in use today. Hippocrates' ideas are expressed in [[Hippocratic Corpus|The Hippocratic Corpus]]. The collection notes descriptions of medical philosophies and how disease and lifestyle choices reflect on the physical body.<ref name="Kleisiaris 6"/> Hippocrates influenced a Westernized, professional relationship among physician and patient.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=DeHart |first=Scott M. |title=Hippocratic Medicine and the Greek Body Image |journal=Perspectives on Science |year=1999 |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=349–382 |doi=10.1162/posc.1999.7.3.349 |s2cid=57571190 |issn=1063-6145|doi-access=free }}</ref> [[Hippocrates]] is also known as "the Father of Medicine".<ref name="Kleisiaris 6"/> [[Herophilos]] (335–280 BCE) was the first to base his conclusions on dissection of the human body and to describe the [[nervous system]]. [[Galen]] (129 – c. 200 CE) performed many audacious operations—including brain and eye [[surgery|surgeries]]— that were not tried again for almost two millennia.
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