Concept
This is a timeline of the history of medicine and medical technology. 3300 BC – During the Stone Age, early doctors used very primitive forms of herbal medicine in India. 3000 BC – Ayurveda The origins of Ayurveda have been traced back to around 3,000 BCE. c. 2600 BC – Imhotep the priest-physician who was later deified as the Egyptian god of medicine. 2500 BC – Iry Egyptian inscription speaks of Iry as eye-doctor of the palace, palace physician of the belly, guardian of the royal bowels, and he who prepares the important medicine (name cannot be translated) and knows the inner juices of the body. 1900–1600 BC Akkadian clay tablets on medicine survive primarily as copies from Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh. 1800 BC – Code of Hammurabi sets out fees for surgeons and punishments for malpractice 1800 BC – Kahun Gynecological Papyrus 1600 BC – Hearst papyrus, coprotherapy and magic 1551 BC – Ebers Papyrus, coprotherapy and magic 1500 BC – Saffron used as a medicine on the Aegean island of Thera in ancient Greece 1500 BC – Edwin Smith Papyrus, an Egyptian medical text and the oldest known surgical treatise (no true surgery) no magic 1300 BC – Brugsch Papyrus and London Medical Papyrus 1250 BC – Asklepios 9th century – Hesiod reports an ontological conception of disease via the Pandora myth. Disease has a "life" of its own but is of divine origin. 8th century – Homer tells that Polydamna supplied the Greek forces besieging Troy with healing drugs. Homer also tells about battlefield surgery Idomeneus tells Nestor after Machaon had fallen: A surgeon who can cut out an arrow and heal the wound with his ointments is worth a regiment. 700 BC – Cnidos medical school; also one at Cos 500 BC – Darius I orders the restoration of the House of Life (First record of a (much older) medical school) 500 BC – Bian Que becomes the earliest physician known to use acupuncture and pulse diagnosis 500 BC – The Sushruta Samhita is published, laying the framework for Ayurvedic medicine, giving many surgical procedures for first time such as lithotomy, forehead flap rhinoplasty, otoplasty and many more.