"First of all the doctor should look at the patient’s face. If he looks his usual self this is a good sign. If not, however, the following are bad signs – sharp nose, hollow eyes, cold ears, dry skin on the forehead, strange face colour such as green, black, red…

The celebrated Tree of Hippocrates has a new life on the National Institutes of Health campus and a new place in 21st century science. A Tree of Hippocrates clone was planted in front of the National Library of Medicine on April 25, 2014. And the first gene sequence of the…