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Hippocrates, widely considered the be the "father of modern medicine" looked at the practice of medicince as a lifelong art. He blended Greek philosophy with scientfic inquiry to come up with his view of health, disease, and medicine. This was different from the contemporary view that sickness was caused by demons or gods. He is credited as being the first to believe that sickness was a result of environment, nutrition, and lifestyle. In this manner, modern medicine is a faint resemblence of the medicine practiced by Hippocrates.Notable Islamic medical pioneers include polymath Avicenna, who, along with Hippocrates, has also been called the Father of Medicine. Abulcasis, the father of surgery, Avenzoar, the father of experimental surgery, Ibn al-Nafis, the father of circulatory physiology, and Averroes. Rhazes, who is called the father of pediatrics, was one of first to question the Greek theory of humorism, which nevertheless remained influential in both medieval Western and medieval Islamic medicine During the Crusades, one Muslim observer famously expressed a dim view of contemporary Western medicine.
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