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Who is the father of medical science?

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Hippocrates

Hippocrates was an ancient Greek physician of the 5th century BC who is regarded as the father of medicine.

He separated medicine from religion and superstition, treating disease as a result of natural causes, and is linked with the Hippocratic Oath taken by doctors.

Aristotle is known as the father of biology, Archimedes was a mathematician and physicist, and William Harvey described the circulation of blood.

Hence, Hippocrates.

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