Continued from ' Nascent experience of a doctor in Neurology' In 1700 B.C. Edwin Smith (surgical Papyrus) the first use of "neuro" words in recorded history he was referred as “Father of Medicine who described the difference between magic and medicine. Hippocrates of Kos (460 –370 BC), was a Greek Physician of the Age of Pericle, and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the father of western medicine.
Hippocrates is commonly portrayed as the paragon of the ancient physician, credited with coining the Hippocratic Oath, still relevant and in use today. The history of epilepsy is intermingled with the history of human existence; the first reports on epilepsy can be traced back to the Assyrian texts, almost 2,000 B.C. Multiple references to epilepsy can be found in the ancient texts of all civilizations, most importantly in the…
