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Article: HEALTHCARE THROUGH THE MILLENNIA.
- Article from:
- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- September 27, 1999
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What a difference a few thousand years can make. Following is a look at some of the milestones in the history of medicine and healthcare. Events within a given year may not be chronological.
Circa 8000 B.C. -- Prehistoric people practice trephining -- drilling a hole in the skull to relieve pressure on the brain -- the first-known surgical treatment.
Circa 2,500 B.C. -- Egyptian physicians develop first systematic methods of treating disease.
Circa 460 B.C. -- Hippocrates born. Greek physician known as the Father of Medicine.
Circa 50 A.D. -- First pharmacology text written.
100s A.D. -- Greek physician Galen develops ...