Giampiero Pasero, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director (retired), Rheumatology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa; Piero Marson, MD, Blood Transfusion Service, Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy. © Copyright CLINICALAND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY 2004. The cover of Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology this year has been dedicated to Hippocrates, the "Father of Western ...

Hippocrates (around 460−370 BCE) was a Greek physician and philosopher who is considered the father of modern medicine (Figure 1). The history of epidemiology typically starts with Hippocrates in about 400 BCE but then more than 2000 years are skipped until the birth of modern epidemiology in the 17th century CE with the work of John Graunt, followed by William Farr and John Snow in the 19th ce...

L back pain with pseudoradicular or sciatic pain is one of the oldest maladies faced by the mankind since early ages. It is one of the most common neurological complaints for outpatient visits second only to headache in the United States. Even Hippocrates, popularly considered the father of medicine, advised a rest of 40 days to relieve the symptoms of sciatica, a protocol still practiced effec...

Hippocrates was the first to raise awareness of medicine as a science. He asserted the body being a unified whole and emphasized the importance of preventive and predictive medicine, spurring physicians to foster patient collaboration. Recent achievements today have permitted a new approach "P4 medicine" - Predictive, Preventive, Personalized and Participatory - with the aim of depicting an ind...

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