Short answers, pulled from the story.
Hippocrates of Kos was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period, born around 460 BC on the island of Kos. He is traditionally called the Father of Medicine and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
Hippocrates is called the Father of Medicine for his lasting contributions, including the use of prognosis and clinical observation, the systematic categorization of diseases, and the formulation of humoral theory. He is credited as the first person to argue that diseases were caused naturally rather than by gods or superstition.
The Hippocratic Oath is a seminal document on the ethics of medical practice and the most famous text in the Hippocratic Corpus. Attributed to Hippocrates in antiquity, though it may have been written after his death, it still serves as the foundation for similar oaths taken by modern medical graduates.
The Hippocratic Corpus is a collection of around seventy early medical works written in Ionic Greek and gathered in Alexandrian Greece. Because of its variety of subjects and styles it could not have been written by one person, and the scholar Ermerins numbered its authors at nineteen.
Hippocratic medicine was humble and passive, based on the healing power of nature and the belief that the body could re-balance its four humours and heal itself. Treatment was gentle and emphasized rest, cleanliness, and generalized remedies such as fasting and a mix of honey and vinegar, while drugs were used reluctantly.
Hippocrates died probably in Larissa, according to several differing accounts. He is said to have died at the age of 83, 85, or 90, though some claimed he lived to be well over 100.
Hippocrates and his followers were the first to describe many conditions, including clubbing of the fingers, now called Hippocratic fingers, and the Hippocratic face described in his work Prognosis. He also gave detailed accounts of thoracic empyema as the first documented chest surgeon and analyzed neurological conditions such as epilepsy.