Father of medicine is: (A) Hippocrates, (B) Susrutha, (C) Galen, (D) Panacea
Answer is A. Ans) a (Hippocrates) Ref park 20th ed p 3Hippocrates is the father of modern medicine. It was Hippocrates who first related disease to environment.Galen was a great roman medical teacher. His important contributions were in the field of comparative anatomy and experimental physiology. He observed that disease is due to three factors - Predisposing, exciting and environmental factors which was a truly modern idea during those periodsSusrutha is "father of indian surgery"Panacea is regarded as "goddess of medicine".