Greek physician Hippocrates makes extensive use of…
405 BCE to 394 BCE
Greek physician Hippocrates makes extensive use of medicinal herbs, including opium.
He dismisses the magical attributes of opium but acknowledges its usefulness as a narcotic and styptic in treating internal diseases, diseases of women and epidemics.
His compilation On Airs, Waters and Places is the first medical climatology.
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