... included a stadium and this was for exercise to keep you fit and healthy and threw as also a gymnasium. The other buildings there were for religious purposes like the Abaton. This was for the patients to sleep in a warm, quiet area so that the Greek Gods and their healing snakes would visit them. The Asclepion was designed to relax the patients who were sick, injured or the stressed. The Ancient Greeks though made major strides in medical knowledge. The works of Hippocrates (a Greek medical genius) and his followers led to several scientific facts being recorded for the first time he was the first person ever to study the patients he was working with his method: diagnose, prognose, observe and treat. Hippocrates theory of the Four Humours was, for a long time, the basis upon which to develop their medical knowledge. Some of the medical methods we ...

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