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Kos Hippocrates & Asclepius: All You Need to Know About the Island`s Myths, Legends, and its Gods

In this booklet Jill Dudley writes about Hippocrates who was born on Kos, whose father was a temple priest-physician serving Asclepius, god of healing. She describes Hippocrates` pioneering approach to medicine, and his break with the traditional belief that sickness was an infliction imposed by the gods. It is as the back cover of the booklet says: all you need to know about the island`s myths, legends and its gods.

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