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