Which option supports the way Hippocrates viewed disease?
1. A mystical connection between the body and the stars causes disease.
2. Diseases are the result of being a victim of black magic and spells.
3. Disease is caused by naturally occurring factors.
4. Evil thoughts and deeds cause disease.
Correct Answer: 3
Hippocrates is considered to be the father of medicine. He believed that disease had a natural cause, in contrast to the magical and mystical causes that had been thought to cause disease by priests and witch doctors. He did not believe disease was caused by evil thoughts and deeds.
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