Aristotle (384-322 BC)

摘要

Aristotle is the first to describe the consequences of an endocrine ablation-castration. He and Plato were the leading intellects of classic Greece.Aristotle was born in 384 BC in the town of Stagira on the Aegean Sea near the Macedonian border and the modern city of Salonica. His mother was from Chalcis, a town to the north of Athens on the island of Euboea. His father, Nicomachus, was a physician, a member of the "Sons of Aesclepius." He was the court physician to Amyntas II, the father of Philip of Macedon. The Hippocratic movement was well ingrained at this time. Many diseases had been recognized, and the concepts of diagnosis, syndrome, and prognosis were well established. It is thought that Aristotle studied medicine for a time. Some claim that he practiced medicine when he first went to Athens in 367 BC at the age of seventeen, but the evidence is fragmentary. Since Nicomachus died when Aristotle was 10 years old, his hopes for a career in medicine were likely thwarted at that time.