Known as the Father of western medicine and the founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine, Hippocrates had a major influence on modern medicine. He can take credit for describing and diagnosing many diseases and medical conditions including lung disease, lung cancer, and cyanotic heart disease and clubbing of the fingers, also known as ‘Hippocratic fingers’. Hippocrates is responsible for categorizing different illnesses into different groups such as; acute, chronic, endemic and epidemic which are used to this day and also used terms like relapse and convalescence.
Hippocratic Oath is an oath taken by healthcare professionals to swear to practise medicine honestly. Although the document has been modified considerably, it is still in use. Hippocrates teachings are still relevant for pulmonary medicine and surgery and he was in fact t first recorded chest surgeon and his techniques and findings are still valid in present-day. Hippocratic Corpus was a collection of over seventy medical works including textbooks, lectures, notes and essays on various subjects in medicine.
It’s believed that these documents were most likely written by Hippocrates students or followers. Hippocrates has had a major input in the development of medicine for western society and his knowledge and findings are still used in everyday life. Karl Marx Marx’s ideas have impacted the worlds political and intellectual thought imensley. He’s ideas have helped move along sociology, economic thoughts, philosophy, literature, the arts and almost all academic diciplines.
Karl Marx’s writing introduced the idea of communism to the world, he believed throughout history the ‘lower classes’ had been abused by ‘higher classes’ so he created the idea of the people taking control of wealth and commerce and have equal power, Lenin whom set up the first communist states was majorly influenced by Marx. Karl Marx, alongside Friedrich Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto. Its known as one of the worlds most influentical political manuscripts. Marxism is the belief in Karl Marx’s economical and political philosophy. Karl Marx’s ideas have made a huge input on the modern world. Without communism the world would be.