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About four or five hundred years before Christ, doctors from Greece and Crete visited the ‘Cradle of Medicine’ and as a result a medical school was set up on the Greek island of Cos, subsequently famous through the presence of Hippocrates (460–370 BC), who later became known as the ‘Father of Medicine’.

A Greek, Megallus, formulated a perfume called ‘Megaleion’ – well known throughout Greece, no doubt owing part of its success to the fact that it was also capable of healing wounds and reducing inflammation.

The Greeks made a vital contribution to the future study of plant medicine by classifying and indexing the knowledge they had gained from the Egyptians.