Hindu Medicine c8.191

c8.191

Western science originated in Greece where, in the fifth and fourth centuries B. C., astronomy and physics created new methods and standards for the investigation of nature and the universe. These startling achievements brought about an atmosphere of "New Learning" in Greece. The rise of critical philosophy with the Sophists and Socrates was followed by the scientific zoology and botany of Aristotle and Theophrastus. Out of this inspiring atmosphere sprang the genius of Greek medicine, Alcmaeon of Croton, and Hippocrates, who set the pace for modern medicine as it came into being toward the end of the Middle Ages.