Who invented Western medicine and who is the originator of Western medicine?

The originator of ancient Western medicine was Hippocrates.

Western medicine was born in ancient Greece, and the recognized originator of medicine was Hippocrates 2,600 years ago, who established the theory of body fluids: there are four body fluids in the human body - blood, yellow bile, black bile and mucus, and if these fluids are out of balance, diseases will arise.

For example, fever, accompanied by flushing of the body and face, is an imbalance of blood stasis, and the first method is bloodletting. He emphasized the observation of breathing, body temperature, pulse, stool, and urine, and his discourse was compiled into the Hippocratic Corpus.

In the early days of human history, medicine came in the form of philosophy. Based on the understanding of their own bodies, human beings have come up with a variety of medical theories. The medicine of ancient Western countries originated in ancient Greece, its founder was Hippocrates, the "four humors theory" of medicine in ancient Western countries believed that the human body is composed of blood, mucus, yellow bile, black bile, and each part is interconnected, the body is filled with various fluids, the balance of these fluids is the basic condition for the survival of the body, and their balance is reflected in the complexion, temperament and temperament; At the same time, medicine in ancient Western countries also emphasized the interconnection between mind and body, human body and nature, and attached great importance to maintaining health, believing that health mainly depends on the influence of lifestyle, mental and emotional state, environment, diet, exercise, peace of mind, and willpower. The medical system of ancient Western countries required that doctors should pay special attention to the study of the particularity and uniqueness of each patient's individual health, so it focused on the patient rather than the disease, and emphasized the active cooperation between the patient and the doctor.

By the seventeenth century, the doctrine of the "four humors" had come under fire because it was considered an empty theory without any material basis. Since then, scholars in Western countries have abandoned the medicine of ancient Western countries, adopted correct research methods, and developed a new medical system based on science and experiments in modern times, and this discipline is the medicine of modern and modern Western countries, that is, Western medicine that is developing in all countries and nations in the world today.

The progress of science has led modern Westerners to realize that nature has its own laws of motion, which cannot be explained according to people's wishes or conjectures, but can only be expressed in mechanical theories and in geometric and mathematical language. This mechanistic view gave a great impetus to the development of medicine, and people began to think that the discomfort of the body does not vary from individual to individual, and that in fact any disease is caused by some kind of injury in the body, and that drugs and surgical procedures can ** or alleviate the disease. In the late 20th century, with the rise of medicine in modern Western countries with the integrated medical model of "social-psychological-biological", with the development of systems biology and systems biotechnology, the beginning of the 21st century began to move towards the era of systems medicine and personalized medical care in the post-genomic era.