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Hippocrates came from the Greek island of Kos. At the time, many people thought illness was a punishment from the gods. Hippocrates and the doctors around him looked for natural causes instead, and they kept careful notes on what they saw in their patients.

The Hippocratic Oath, a promise to help patients and do no harm, is named after him. Historians think most of the writings credited to him were really written by several doctors, but his name stuck as the symbol of the profession.