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Asklepios, Hygeia, Panacea, Apollo, and Chiron, including the Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus (Ἐπίδαυρος).
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7th c.bce HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
620 BCE Thales of Miletus (d. 546 BCE) (Greek: Θαλῆς) Philosopher; founder, Milesian School
of Natural Philosophy. In movement away from temple medicine, sought patterns in nature to explain the way phenomena worked through natural principles, observation, hypotheses, and theories.
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6th c.bce HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
570 BCE Pythagoras (d. 490 BCE) (Greek: Puthagóras, Πυθαγόρας) Major figure in both scientific and mystery traditions; teachings influenced the basis of later Greek philosophy and medicine, including humoral theory and healing effects of music. Taught the transmigration of souls and practiced a vegetarian diet.
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5th c.bce PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
5th c. BCE Herodicus (Greek: Ἡρóδιĸος) Greek physician, native of Selymbria. Pioneered therapeutic exercise, healthy diet, and massage with herbs and oils for treating disease and enhancing health; believed to have been a tutor of Hippocrates.XX
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27th c.bce HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Imotep (Greek: Imuthes, Ἰμούθης) fl. 27th c. BCE (2655-2600 BCE) Physician (swnw), architect, engineer, court counselor of Khem (ancient Egypt). Taught disease as a natural effect of living out of alignment with Ma’at (Natural Law and Justice), not a punishment from the Neteru (deities).
First historic human to be deified as a god of medicine, a physician deity, as the adopted son
of deities Sekhmet and Ptah. Numerous temples of prayer, healing, and intervention throughout
the Mediterranean dedicated to him over many centuries. Considered by many as originator of healing mystery cults that became the Asklepian lineage. Sir William Osler described Imhotep as “the first figure of a physician to stand out clearly from the mists of antiquity.” HesiRe considered by others as the earliest known physician in the West.
Merit-Ptah (”Beloved of Ptah”) Chief court physician during the Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt; first woman known by name in the history of the field of medicine; possibly the first named woman in Western science.
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26th c.bce HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Peseshet. Woman physician during the 4th dynasty in Egypt; trained as a midwife; later given the title, “lady overseer of the female physicians.”
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10th c.bce PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
ca. 900 BCE Greek temple medicine centered on
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