公元前430年,雅典发生了瘟疫,很多人突然发烧、呕吐、腹泻,患病的人接连死去。此时,希腊北部马其顿王国的一位御医冒着危险前往雅典救治。他一边调查疫情,一边探寻病因。后来,他发现全城只有一种人没染上瘟疫,那就是每天和火打交道的铁匠。他由此揣测火可以防疫,于是在全城各处燃起火堆,最终扑灭了瘟疫。这位御医就是被称为“医学之父”的古希腊著名医生希波克拉底。时至今日,在欧洲,当年轻的医学院毕业生准备披上圣洁的白大褂时,都要背诵“希波克拉底誓言”。而今,当懵懂少年们描述“长大后我要做什么”的幻想时,追随的偶像除了《妙手仁心》《白色巨塔》等热播剧中仁心仁术的翩翩医生形象外,或许还有这位在人们的记忆中渐行渐远的希波克拉底医生吧! In 430 BC, a plague occurred in Athens. Many people suddenly suffered fever, vomiting, and diarrhea. The sick people died one after another. At this time, a medicine doctor in the northern Greek Republic of Macedonia risked his way to Athens for treatment. He investigated the cause of the disease while investigating the epidemic. Later, he discovered that only one person in the whole city did not have a plague, and that was a blacksmith who dealt with the fire daily. He thus conjectured that the fire could prevent the epidemic, so he lit fires throughout the city and eventually exterminated the plague. The physician was Hippocrates, an ancient Greek doctor known as the father of medicine. To this day, in Europe, when young graduates of the medical school prepare to put on the holy white robes, they must recite “Hippocratic oaths.” Nowadays, when you are ignorant of the fantasy of teenagers describing “what I want to do when I grow up,” the idols followed, besides the images of the doctors and doctors in the hit dramas such as “Meddlers”, “White Tower”, etc. Maybe there is this Hippocrates doctor who is getting further away in people’s memories!