| Date |
Place |
Event |
| 3000 |
Babylon |
Healing qualities of mineral springs discovered. |
| 1750 |
Egypt |
Edwin Smith Papyrus describes medical & surgical
practices. |
| 800 |
Greece |
Homer refers to
highly developed battlefield surgery. |
| 750 |
Israel |
Medicine becomes divorced from priesthood; medical
training uses anatomical models. |
| 500 |
Greece |
Alcmaeon of Croton
discovers difference between veins & arteries, also connection
between brain and sensing organs. |
| |
India |
Surgeon Susrata
performs cataract operation. |
| |
Greece |
Alcmaeon discovers
Eustachian tubes. |
| 460 |
Greece |
Hippocrates,
"Father of Medicine" born. |
| 430 |
Athens |
Plague to 423. |
| 265 |
Rome |
1st contact of the Romans with Greek
medicine through prisoners of war. |
| 90 |
Rome |
Asclepiades,
Greek physician, practices nature healing. |
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