Medicine was important to the Greek people of long ago. It was so important to them that it was valued in very good lifestyles. Ancient Greece was very different from the Greece of modern times. Medicine practiced in Ancient Greece basically depended on religious beliefs, which were similar to the Ancient Egyptians. A cult known as Asclepios was an important provider of medical care.

The Ancient Greeks were thought to be the fathers of medicine. The Greeks received most of their medical knowledge from the Hippocrates of times before them. In the ancient times of Greeks, their medicine never worked as well as today's medicine. Capabilities of their medicine only got as far as healing wounds with alcohol or other herbal remedies, but when an infection was in, it was seldom that they could ever do anything. With such little technology, for a Greek warrior, a mere cut could be deadly.

This is the Humor Theory from the Ancient Greeks: The Greeks thought that the body consisted of four fluids, (phlegm, blood, yellow bile, and black bile) and diseases occurred when these fluids were out of balance.

Hippocrates was the first to come up with the theory that medicine was scientific and that it had nothing to do with religion. Hippocrates was the creator of the medical field as it is known. Medicine today relies on the guess that was made by Hippocrates that an amazing physician could exterminate illness with the knowledge from ancient writings. The most well known physician of the Ancient Greek times was Hippocrates and his nickname will always be Father of Medicine.