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One of the first recorded physicians Bogar: 3rd century BCE Indian The Pharmacognosy is the best known of his treatises Tirumular: 2nd century BCE Indian Aegimus: 5th century BCE: Greek: first person who wrote a treatise on the pulse Korakkar: 2nd century BCE Indian His works include Korakkar Malai Vagatam (Korakkar's Mountain Medicines) Patanjali
B. K. Misra — first neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms, first in South Asia to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery. [1] Frederic E. Mohs (1910–2002) — responsible for the method of surgery now called Mohs surgery
A doctor checks a patient's pulse in Meiji-era Japan. European ideas of modern medicine were spread widely through the world by medical missionaries, and the dissemination of textbooks. Japanese elites enthusiastically embraced Western medicine after the Meiji Restoration of the 1860s. However they had been prepared by their knowledge of the ...
400 – The first hospital in Latin Christendom was founded by Fabiola at Rome [17] 420 – Caelius Aurelianus a doctor from Sicca Veneria (El-Kef, Tunisia) handbook On Acute and Chronic Diseases in Latin. [13] 447 – Cassius Felix of Cirta (Constantine, Ksantina, Algeria), medical handbook drew on Greek sources, Methodist and Galenist in ...
Hippocrates of Kos (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ k r ə t iː z /, Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, romanized: Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
Roman medicine was highly influenced by the Greek medical tradition. Prior to the introduction of Greek medicine Roman medicine was a combination of religion and magic. The first Roman physicians were religious figures with no medical training or the head of the family. [8] The first professional physicians were Greek physicians.
Physicians, especially in the city's early years, were some of Wilmington's leading residents, and thus were in a position to influence local events. Physicians, especially in the city's early ...
2013. The first growing of a replacement nose on a patient's forehead by surgeons at Imperial College in Fuzhou, China. 2014. The first penis transplant by surgeons at Tygerberg Hospital in South Africa. 2015. The first skull and scalp transplant by surgeons at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas. 2016.