Q 01/05

By what title is Hippocrates traditionally known?

A) The Healer of Athens

B) The Physician of Kings

C) The Father of Medicine

D) The Father of Surgery

Answer · why

C) The Father of Medicine

He is credited with prognosis, clinical observation and the systematic categorisation of diseases.

Q 02/05

On which Greek island was Hippocrates born around 460 BC?

A) Kos

B) Rhodes

C) Crete

D) Samos

Answer · why

A) Kos

He was probably trained at the island's asklepieion, a healing temple.

Q 03/05

What is the ethical pledge, still taken by doctors in modified forms, credited to Hippocrates?

A) The Kos Covenant

B) The Hippocratic Oath

C) The Oath of Asclepius

D) The Physician's Creed

Answer · why

B) The Hippocratic Oath

Modern scholars think it was probably written after his death, in the fifth or fourth century BC.

Q 04/05

He was named after his grandfather; what suffix distinguishes the famous doctor from him?

A) The Younger

B) II (the second)

C) The Great

D) III (the third)

Answer · why

B) II (the second)

Two of his grandsons were also called Hippocrates, numbered III and IV.

Q 05/05

Who was Hippocrates's first biographer and the source of most personal details about him?

A) Soranus of Ephesus

B) Plutarch of Chaeronea

C) Diogenes Laertius

D) Galen of Pergamon

Answer · why

A) Soranus of Ephesus

Soranus wrote in the 2nd century AD, some 500 years after his subject.