Hipokrat MÖ 460 - MÖ 370

He was raised by his father, who was a physician, and worked as a physician in many places. After visiting the northern provinces of Anatolia, he returned to the island of Kos and continued his medical practice. In ancient Ionia, medicine, which was closely linked to scientific development and philosophy, was popular. This development peaked with Hippocrates. According to him, the first rule of medicine is " Primum non nocere" (First, do no harm!).

His contemporary Plato refers to Hippocrates in his work Protagoras as "Asclepiades of Kos". He mentions that Hippocrates trained his students in exchange for money, and that he gained a reputation in the field of medicine similar to that of Polykleitos and Phidias in sculpture. In his work "Phaedrus", Plato mentions Hippocrates and explains that he was a famous Asclepiades who brought a philosophical approach to medicine and that he considered the human body as a whole.