arbiter - someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue; the critic was considered to be an arbiter of modern literature; the arbitrator's authority derived from the consent of the disputants; an umpire was appointed to settle the tax case.
Hippocrates was a Greek physician born in 460 BC on the  island of Cos, Greece. He became known as the founder of medicine  and was regarded as the greatest physician of hisâ¦ time. He based  his medical practice on observations and on the study of the human  body.
However, this collection is important because it is the first detailed list of symptoms and treatments. Doctors continued to use the theories of Hippocrates as the basis of their own work for hundreds of years, which is an important reason why Hippocrates is still considered to be one of the most important people in the history of medicine.