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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
At Kaiserswerth, where the first German nursing schools were founded in 1836 by Theodor Fliedner, she said, "The nursing was nil and the hygiene horrible." [ 179 ] Britain's male doctors preferred the old system, but Nightingale won out and her Nightingale Training School opened in 1860 and became a model.
Guy de Chauliac (1290–1368) — one of the first physicians to have an experimental approach towards medicine; also recorded the Black Death; Anna Manning Comfort (1845–1931) — first woman medical graduate to practice in the state of Connecticut; Loren Cordain (born 1950) — American nutritionist and exercise physiologist, Paleolithic diet
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.
500 BC – Pills were used. They were presumably invented so that measured amounts of a medicinal substance could be delivered to a patient. 510–430 BC – Alcmaeon of Croton scientific anatomic dissections. He studied the optic nerves and the brain, arguing that the brain was the seat of the senses and intelligence.
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.
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 ...
The First Doctor is the original incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.He was portrayed by actor William Hartnell in the first three series from 1963 to 1966 and the tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors from 1972 to 1973.