Hippocrates God Statue made of alabaster Height 15cm Weight 250g Categoty: Statues, Sculptures, Ancient Greek Material: Alabaster Hippocrates, (born c. 460 BCE, island of Cos, Greecedied c. 375 BCE, Larissa, Thessaly), ancient Greek physician who lived during Greece’s Classical period & is traditionally regarded as the father of medicine. It is difficult to isolate the facts of Hippocrates’ life from the later tales told about him or to assess his medicine accurately in the face of centuries of reverence for him as the ideal physician. About 60 medical writings have survived that bear his name, most of which were not written by him. He has been revered for his ethical standards in medical practice, mainly for the Hippocratic Oath, which, it is suspected, he did not write. Alabaster handmade statue on my small workshop. Worldwide safe shipping with free tracking number Hippocrates God Statue Made Of Alabaster