Hippocrates's methods were adopted by doctors across Europe and the Islamic world long after his death. An engraving of the doctor, Galen. He was Greek by birth but practiced medicine in Ancient Rome.

Islamic physicians and scholars were strongly influenced by Galen and Hippocrates, who were viewed as the two fathers of medicine, closely followed by the Greek scholars of Alexandria, Egypt.

THE lecture entitled “The Hand in Healing: a Study in Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Ramazzini ... the decline of anatomy and surgery after Galen; (2) the limitation of ancient medicine ...