Editing List of ancient physicians (section)

== 30th century to 1st century BCE ==
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! Name !! Century !! Ethnicity !! Known for
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|[[Imhotep]]
|27th century BCE
|Egyptian
|One of the first recorded physicians
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|[[Bogar]]
|3rd century BCE
|Indian 
|The ''[[Pharmacognosy]]'' is the best known of his treatises
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|[[Tirumular]]
|2nd century BCE
|Indian
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| [[Aegimus]] || 5th century BCE || Greek || first person who wrote a treatise on the pulse
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|[[Korakkar]]
|2nd century BCE
|Indian 
|His works include ''Korakkar Malai Vagatam'' (''Korakkar's Mountain Medicines'')
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|[[Patanjali]]
|2nd century BCE
|Indian
|Founder of [[Yoga]] School
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| [[Amenhotep (Asyut)|Amenhotep]] || 13th century BCE || Egyptian || chief physician of the early [[19th Dynasty]]
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| [[Androcydes (physician)|Androcydes]] || 4th century BCE || Greek ||
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| [[Antipater (1st-century BC physician)|Antipater]] || 1st century BCE || Greek || author of a work titled ''On the Soul''
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|[[Kashyapa]]
|8th century BCE 
|Indian 
|wrote [[Kashyap Samhita]]
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| [[Apollonius Glaucus]] || 3rd century BCE || Greek || ''On Internal Diseases''
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| [[Apollonios of Kition]] || 1st century BCE || Greek Cypriot || most important work is ''On Joints''
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|[[Agnivesha]]
|8th century BCE
|Indian 
|wrote Agnivesha Samhita considered foundational text of the Agnivesha school of early  [[Ayurveda]] 
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|[[Bharadwaja]]
|12th century BCE
|Indian 
|He stated that embryo is caused from union of man's sperm and menstrual blood of woman
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|[[Atreya]]
|6th century BCE
|Indian 
|Instructor of the compiler of the ''[[Bhela Samhita]]''
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| [[Aristotle]] || 4th century BCE || Greek ||
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| [[Asclepiades of Bithynia]] || 2nd–1st century BCE || Greek || built a new theory of disease
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| [[Bian Que]] || 4th century BCE || Chinese || earliest known Chinese physician
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| [[Bolus of Mendes]] || 3rd century BCE  || Greek ||
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| [[Cato the Elder]] || 2nd century BCE ||Roman ||
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| [[Charaka]] || 6th–2nd century BCE || Indian || one of the principal contributors to [[Ayurveda]]
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| [[Ctesias]] || 5th century BCE || Greek ||
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| [[Demetrius of Apamea]] || 2nd century BCE || Greek || studied sexual organs
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| [[Dexippus of Cos]] || 4th century BCE || Greek || pupil of [[Hippocrates]]
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| [[Dieuches]] || 4th century BCE || Greek || [[Dogmatic school]] of medicine
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| [[Diocles of Carystus]] || 4th century BCE || Greek || practical medicine, especially diet and nutrition
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| [[Erasistratus]] || 3rd century BCE || Greek || founded a school of anatomy in Alexandria
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| [[Heraclides of Tarentum]] || 2nd century BCE || Greek || physician of the [[Empiric school]] 
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| [[Herophilos|Herophilus]] || 3rd century BCE || Greek || deemed to be the first [[anatomist]]
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| [[Hicesius]] || 1st century BCE || Greek || head of a medical school established at Smyrna
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| [[Hippocrates]] || 5th century BCE || Greek || "Father of Medicine", wrote the [[Hippocratic Corpus]]
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| [[Irynachet]] || 22nd century BCE || Egyptian || ''senior physician of the great house''
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| [[Jīvaka|Jivaka Komarabhacca]] || 5th century BCE || Indian || personal physician of King [[Bimbisara]] and [[Gautama Buddha]]
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| [[Madhava-kara]] || 8th century BCE || Indian || listed diseases along with their causes, symptoms, and complications
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| [[Meges of Sidon]] || 1st century BCE || Greek/Roman || surgeon 
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| [[Mnesitheus]] || 4th century BCE || Greek || classification of diseases
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| [[Sextius Niger]] || 1st century BCE || Roman || [[pharmacology]]
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| [[Penthu]] || 16th century BCE || Egyptian || Chief Physician to [[Akhenaten]]
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| [[Peseshet]] || 25th century BCE || Egyptian || one of the earliest known female physicians
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|[[Harita (physician)|Harita]] 
|8th century BCE
|Indian
|pupil of [[Atreya]] and composed [[samhita]]
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|[[Jatukarna]]
|8th century BCE
|Indian
|pupil of [[Atreya]] and composed "Jatukarna Samhita"
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| [[Philinus of Cos]] || 3rd century BCE || Greek || reputed founder of the [[Empiric school]]
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| [[Philistion of Locri]] || 4th century BCE || Greek || physician and writer of medicine
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| [[Philoxenus (physician)]] || 3rd century BCE || Greco-Egyptian || wrote several volumes on surgery
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| [[Plistonicus]] || 4th–3rd century BCE || Greek || wrote a work on anatomy
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| [[Posidonius]] || 2nd–1st century BCE || Greek || [[polymath]]
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| [[Praxagoras of Cos]] || 4th century BCE || Greek || theory of circulation
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| [[Qar (doctor)|Qar]] || 23rd century BCE || Egyptian || Chief Physician during the [[Sixth dynasty of Egypt|Sixth dynasty]]
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| [[Rabâ-ša-Marduk]] || 13th century BCE || Kassite ||
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| [[Serapion of Alexandria]] || 3rd century BCE || Greek || member of the [[Empiric school]] of medicine
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| [[Shepseskaf-ankh]] || 25th century BCE ||Egyptian || Chief Physician during the [[Fifth dynasty of Egypt|Fifth dynasty]]
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| [[Sushruta]] || 7th century BCE || Indian || author of the treatise ''The Compendium of Suśruta''
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| [[Themison of Laodicea]] || 1st century BCE || Greek || founder of the [[Methodic school]] of medicine
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| [[Theophrastus]] || 4th–3rd century BCE || Greek ||
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