The interior of a century-old plane tree known as the Hippocrates. Hippocrates, the centuries old planes trees that provide shade in the course ... Physician Hippocrates in ancient times who was in the shadow of the plane trees that students understood the lessons, Wood island of Kos in Greece. Hippocrates lived in the island of Kos in 460'l of years before Christ. Some diseases are first identified by Hippocrates, the literature "father of medicine" as passed.