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Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was also the father of public health. He flourished in a school of medicine at the Temple of Asklepios, near Epidaurus in Greece about 450 BCE. The Hippocratic writings contain rich medical wisdom based on careful observation of sick and healthy people and their habits and habitats.