Parasites Described by Hippocrates ID'd in Ancient Poop
Hippocrates described unidentified parasitic worms in his medical texts 2,500 years ago. Ancient human poop just revealed which ones.
Researchers studying prehistoric poop on the Greek island of Kea have finally identified the parasitic worms that Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician widely considered the father of modern medicine, described in his famous medical texts 2,500 years ago.
Scientists collected decomposed human poop from the pelvic bones of skeletons from the Neolithic period, Bronze Age and Roman periods—so, from points between around 10200 B.C. to around the
