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Who are the famous physicians and doctors in western history?
I. Hippocrates (ancient Greece:? πποκρ? τη? , 460-370 years ago) was a physician in Pericles' time in ancient Greece, and was honored as the "father of medicine" and the founder of western medicine by the west.

He put forward the theory of "body fluid", and his medical views have great influence on the development of western medicine in the future. The Hippocratic Oath is a sacred book that Hippocrates warned human beings about the professional ethics of ancient Greece. The professional ethics proposal he sent to the medical profession is an important content for medical practitioners to learn in the first class, and it is also a self-discipline requirement for all professionals in the whole society.

2. Claudius Gallenus (129 ~ 199), also known as "Claudius Gallenus of Pegama", is the most famous and influential medical master in ancient Rome, and he is considered to be second only to Hippocrates.

Galen is the most famous doctor, animal anatomist and philosopher. He devoted his life to the research, writing and various academic activities of medical practical anatomy, wrote more than 500 medical works, and put forward the concept of personality type according to the ancient Greek body fluid theory. His main works are Temperament, Instinct and three natural science papers.

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Other western celebrities who have contributed to medicine.

1. Alexander Fleming (188 1 August 6th-1955 March 1 1) is a British bacteriologist, biochemist and microbiologist.

Lysozyme was discovered in alexander fleming in 1923, and penicillin was first discovered in 1928.

Second, Dutch scientist Anton Levinhawk (1632- 1723) discovered the inoculation technology, that is, the method of preventing diseases by injection.

Third, Freud-Austrian doctor Freud (1856- 1939) devoted himself to studying the process of people's ideological activities. He listens to patients telling their dreams and thoughts to treat mental patients. This treatment is called psychoanalysis.

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