How was Hippocrates child hood?

Answer 1

Hippocrates was born around 460 BC in Cos, an island in Greece. According to Sonarus of Ephesus, Hippocrates was the son of Heraclides, who was a physician and his mother Praxitela was the daughter of Tizane. Sonarus writes that Hippocrates acquired knowledge of medicine from his grandfather and father and that he gained knowledge about other subjects from Gorgias ad Democritus. Hippocrates received his training at the asklepieion of Kos, and he also took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria