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Social & Preventive Medicine Concept of Health and Disease 2be4f9a2

Father of medicine is

A
Hippocrates
B
Susrutha
C
Galen
D
Panacea
High-Yield Explanation
Ans) a (Hippocrates) Ref park 20th ed p 3Hippocrates is the father of modern medicine. It was Hippocrates who first related disease to environment.Galen was a great roman medical teacher. His important contributions were in the field of comparative anatomy and experimental physiology. He observed that disease is due to three factors - Predisposing, exciting and environmental factors which was a truly modern idea during those periodsSusrutha is "father of indian surgery"Panacea is regarded as "goddess of medicine".

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