Just about any publication that explores the role of diet in disease invokes Hippocrates鈥 famous dictum, 鈥淟et food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.鈥 Actually, there is no record of...
Hippocrates is often regarded as the father of modern medicine in spite of his mistaken belief that illness and health were determined by the ups and downs of the four 鈥渉umours,鈥 namely black bile,...