Who is considered to be the "father of medicine"?

a. Hippocrates
b. Galen
c. Erasistratus
d. Aristotle


ANS: A
The foundation of modern Western medicine was laid in ancient Greece with the development of the Hippocratic Corpus. This collection of ancient medical writings is attributed to the "father of medicine," Hippocrates, a Greek physician who lived during the fifth and fourth centuries BC.

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