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.
exists and is an alternate of . Hippocrates' role in the symbol for medicine has a long and complicated history which is based primarily on Greek mythology. To put it simply, the Roman god Mercury (Greek Hermes) was the god of medicine/science in the ancient world while Asclepius was the Roman god of healing.