Timeline of Surgical Procedures
- archeological record Trepanation, broken bones, wounds.
- ca 2613 to 2494 BCE a jaw found in a Fourth Dynasty tomb shows the marks of an operation to drain a pus-filled abscess under the first molar.
- 2580 BCE Khufu heard stories of Dedi's feats of surgery Dedi re-attaches the severed head of a goose with magic.
- 1772 BCE Code of Hammurabi
- 1550 BCE Ebers Papyrus
- 1250 BCE ? Asklepios his sons Podaleirius and Machaon reported by Homer as battlefield surgeons.
- 8th century BCE Homer reports; arrowheads cut out; styptics; administers sedatives and cuts bandaged with wool.
- 5th century BCE Medical schools at Cnidos and Cos
- 460 BCE Hippocrates insisted on the use of scientific methods in medicine. He "taught that wounds should be washed in water that had been boiled or filtered, and that a doctor's hands should be kept clean, his nails clipped short"
- (?-c.1258)Hugh of Lucca (BIorgognoni, Ugo) . An Italian physician. He served as a military surgeon during the crusade to Syria and Egypt. His experience on the battlefield led him to believe that a large part of the brain could be removed without much functional loss.
- c. 1900 Cargile membrane employed by surgeons.
- 1967: First successful heart transplant.
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