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 Minoans practise trephination |
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c. -2500 |
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| Minoans export opium to Egypt |
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c. -1300 |
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| Greeks erect buildings for the dying |
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c. -430 |
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| Greek temples provide sanctuary for the sick |
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c. -430 |
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| Plague of Athens kills a third of the population |
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c. -425 |
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| Hippocratic oath forbids abortion |
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c. -400 |
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| King Mithridates creates legendary antidote to poison |
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c. -90 |
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| Romans give soldiers free burial in army recruitment drive |
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c. -20 |
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| Romans take a lenient view over suicide |
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c. 50 |
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| Romans construct well-appointed army hospitals |
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c. 50 |
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| Dioscorides writes De materia medica |
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c. 64 |
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| Soranus of Ephesus writes on gynaecology |
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c. 100 |
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| Galen learns surgery by repairing gladiators' wounds |
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157 |
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| Romans invent ingenious baby's bottle |
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c. 200 |
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| Fabiola founds Christian hospital in Latin west |
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397 |
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| Plague of Justinian kills 25% of population |
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542 |
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| Arab pharmacists become master drug-makers |
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c. 1000 |
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| Hospital of St John in Jerusalem |
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c. 1080 |
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| Birth of the Biddenden Maids |
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1100 |
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| Lepers segregated from society in lazarettos |
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c. 1100 |
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 | The leper hospital, Amsterdam
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| European pharmacists form guilds |
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c. 1200 |
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| Contraception condemned by church physicians |
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c. 1200 |
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| Christianity teaches the 'Art of Dying' |
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c. 1200 |
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 | The death of Dick Whittington
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| Muslims build hospitals with fountains |
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c. 1200 |
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 | The Maristan Hospital, Granada, Spain
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| Barbers practise part-time surgery |
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c. 1250 |
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| Europe's monarchs begin touching for the 'King's Evil' |
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1254 |
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| First public dissection of a human body in Christendom |
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