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Medicine timeline
c. 2000 BC
Medicine men in Peru practise trephination, cuttting holes in the skulls of brave or foolhardy patients
c. 550 BC
The Indian physician Susruta pioneers plastic surgery of the nose
c. 550 BC
Indian medical theory maintains that the body consists of three humours - spirit, phlegm and bile
c. 400 BC
Hippocrates, on the Greek island of Kos, founds an influential school of medicine
c. 280 BC
The Alexandrian school of medicine develops an alarming form of clinical anatomy – human vivisection
c. 100 BC
The practice of acupuncture is described in
Nei Qing
, a Chinese medical text
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