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The following is a '''list of ancient doctors''' who were known to have practised [[medicine]] in some form before AD 700:

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! Name !! Time period !! Ethnicity !! Known for
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| [[Abascantus]] || AD 2nd century || Greek || invented antidote against serpent bites
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| [[Adamantius (physician)|Adamantius Judaeus]] || AD 5th century || Greek ||
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|[[Bogar]]
|3rd century BC
|Indian
|The ''[[Pharmacognosy]]'' is the best known of his treatises
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|[[Tirumular]]
|2nd century BC
|Indian
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| [[Aegimus]] || 5th century BC || Greek || first person who wrote a treatise on the pulse
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|[[Korakkar]]
|2nd century BC
|Indian
|His works include ''Korakkar Malai Vagatam'' (''Korakkar's Mountain Medicines'')
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| [[Aemilia Hilaria]] || AD 4th century || Roman || female physician. Wrote books on gynecology and obstetrics.
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| [[Aeschrion of Pergamon]] || AD 2nd century || Greek || pharmaceutist
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| [[Aëtius of Amida]] || AD 5th–6th century || Byzantine Greek ||
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|[[Patanjali]]
|2nd century BC
|Indian
|Founder of [[Yoga]] School
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| [[Agathinus]] || AD 1st century || Greek || founder of the [[Eclectic school]] of medicine
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| [[Albucius]] || AD 1st century || Roman || wealthy physician, with annual income of 250,000 sesterces
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| [[Alcon (classical history)]] || AD 1st century || Greek || surgeon
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| [[Alexander of Tralles]] || AD 6th century || Byzantine Greek || chief work titled ''Twelve Books on Medicine''
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| [[Amenhotep (Asyut)|Amenhotep]] || 13th century BC || Egyptian || chief physician of the early [[19th Dynasty]]
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| [[Androcydes (physician)|Androcydes]] || 4th century BC || Greek ||
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| [[Andromachus (physician)|Andromachus]] || AD 1st century || Greek ||
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| [[Anonymus Londinensis]] || AD 1st century || Greek || author of the physiological work ''On Medicine''
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| [[Antipater (1st-century BC physician)|Antipater]] || 1st century BC || Greek || author of a work titled ''On the Soul''
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| [[Antipater (2nd-century physician)|Antipater]] || AD 2nd century || Greek || gave an account of the morbid symptoms that precede death
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| [[Antiphanes of Delos]] || AD 2nd century || Greek || "the sole cause of diseases in man was the too great variety of his food"
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| [[Antonius Castor]] || AD 1st century || Roman || herbal remedies
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| [[Antyllus]] || AD 2nd century || Greek || surgeon, treatment of aneurysms became standard until the 19th century
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Claudius]] || AD 2nd century || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Cyprius]] || AD 1st century || Greek ||
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|[[Kashyapa]]
|BCE 8th century
|Indian
|wrote [[Kashyap Samhita]]
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Organicus]] || AD 2nd century || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Pergamenus]] || AD 3rd century || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Pitaneus]] || AD 1st century || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Senior]] || AD 1st century || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Tarensis]] || AD 1st century || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Ther]] || AD 1st century || Greek ||
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| [[Apollonius Glaucus]] || 3rd century BC || Greek || ''On Internal Diseases''
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|[[Charaka Samhita|Dridhabala]]
|AD 2nd century
|India
|edited the Charaka Samhita
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| [[Apollonios of Kition]] || 1st century BC || Greek Cypriot || most important work is ''On Joints''
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| [[Archigenes]] || AD 1st–2nd century || Greek || very high reputation for his professional skill
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| [[Arcyon]] || AD 1st century || Greek || surgeon
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|[[Agnivesa]]
|8th century BC
|Indian
|wrote Agnivesha Samhita considered foundational text of the Agnivesha school of early [[Ayurveda]]
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|[[Bharadwaja]]
|12th century BC
|Indian
|He stated that embryo is caused from union of man's sperm and menstrual blood of woman
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|[[Atreya]]
|8th century BC
|Indian
|writer of ''Bhela Samhita''
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| [[Aretaeus]] || AD 1st century || Greek || general treatise on diseases
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| [[Aristotle]] || 4th century BC || Greek ||
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| [[Asclepiades Pharmacion]] || AD 1st–2nd century || Greek || skill and knowledge of pharmacy
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| [[Asclepiades of Bithynia]] || 2nd–1st century BC || Greek || built a new theory of disease
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| [[Aspasia the Physician]] || AD 4th century || Greek || Female gynecologist
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| [[Athenaeus of Attalia]] || AD 1st century || Greek || founder of the [[Pneumatic school]] of medicine
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| [[Bian Que]] || 4th century BC || Chinese || earliest known Chinese physician
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| [[Bolus of Mendes]] || 3rd century BC || Greek ||
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| [[Caelius Aurelianus]] || AD 5th century || Roman || medical translator
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| [[Cassius Felix]] || AD 3rd century || Roman African || medical writer
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| [[Cato the Elder]] || 2nd century BC ||Roman ||
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| [[Aulus Cornelius Celsus]] || AD 1st century || Roman || ''[[De Medicina]]''
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| [[Charaka]] || 6th–2nd century BC || Indian || one of the principal contributors to [[Ayurveda]]
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| [[Charmis of Marseilles|Charmis]] || AD 1st–2nd century || Greek || Physician active in Rome
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| [[Saints Cosmas and Damian]] || AD 3rd century || Arab || persecuted by Diocletian
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| [[Crinas]] || AD 1st–2nd century || Greek || Physician active in Rome
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| [[Criton of Heraclea]] || AD 1st–2nd century || Greek || Chief physician of emperor Trajan
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| [[Ctesias]] || 5th century BC || Greek ||
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| [[Damocrates]] || AD 1st century || Greek || wrote pharmaceutical works in Greek iambic verse
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| [[Demetrius of Apamea]] || 2nd century BC || Greek || studied sexual organs
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| [[Demosthenes Philalethes]] || AD 1st century || Greek || author of the ''Ophthalmicus'', the most influential work of ophthalmology in antiquity
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| [[Dexippus of Cos]] || 4th century BC || Greek || pupil of [[Hippocrates]]
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| [[Dieuches]] || 4th century BC || Greek || [[Dogmatic school]] of medicine
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| [[Diocles of Carystus]] || 4th century BC || Greek || practical medicine, especially diet and nutrition
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| [[Saint Diomedes]] || AD 3rd century || Greek || arrested by Diocletian
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| [[Pedanius Dioscorides]] || AD 1st century || Greek || ''[[De Materia Medica]]''
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| [[Dong Feng (physician)|Dong Feng]] || AD 3rd century || Chinese ||
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| [[Erasistratus]] || 3rd century BC || Greek || founded a school of anatomy in Alexandria
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| [[Erotianus]] || AD 1st century || Greek || ''Collection of Hippocratic Words''
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| [[Eudemus (physician)]] || AD 1st–2nd century || Greek || two persons, the first the poisoner of [[Drusus Julius Caesar]], the second an acquaintance of Galen
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| [[Saint Fabiola]] || AD 4th century || Roman || nurse
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| [[Gaius Stertinius Xenophon]] || AD 1st century || Greek || personal physician of emperor [[Claudius]]
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| [[Galen]] || AD 2nd–3rd century || Greek || developer of [[anatomy]], [[physiology]], [[pathology]], [[pharmacology]], and [[neurology]]
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| [[Ge Hong]] || AD 4th century || Chinese || originator of First Aid in TCM
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| [[Heliodorus (surgeon)|Heliodorus]] || AD 1st century || Greek || wrote on medical technique
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| [[Heraclides of Tarentum]] || 2nd century BC || Greek || physician of the [[Empiric school]]
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| [[Herodotus (physician)]] || AD 1st–2nd century || Greek || Two doctors, the first a Pneumaticist, the second an Empiricist
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| [[Herophilos|Herophilus]] || 3rd century BC || Greek || deemed to be the first [[anatomist]]
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| [[Hicesius]] || 1st century BC || Greek || head of a medical school established at Smyrna
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| [[Hippocrates]] || 5th century BC || Greek || "Father of Medicine", wrote the [[Hippocratic Corpus]]
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| [[Hua Tuo]] || AD 2nd century || Chinese || abilities in acupuncture, moxibustion, herbal medicine and medical [[Daoyin]] exercises
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| [[Huangfu Mi]] || AD 3rd century || Chinese || compiled the ''Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion''
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| [[Ji Ben]] || AD 3rd century || Chinese || physician who started a failed rebellion
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| [[Irynachet]] || 22nd century BC || Egyptian || ''senior physician of the great house''
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| [[Jīvaka|Jivaka Komarabhacca]] || 5th century BC || Indian || personal physician of King [[Bimbisara]] and [[Gautama Buddha]]
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| [[Leonidas (physician)]] || AD 2nd–3rd century || Greek || surgical writer, provided the first detailed description of a mastectomy
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| [[Leoparda]] || AD 4th century || Greek || female gynecologist
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| [[Madhava-kara]] || 8th century BC || Indian || listed diseases along with their causes, symptoms, and complications
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| [[Marcellus Empiricus]] || AD 4th–5th century || Roman || author of pharmacological compendium ''De medicamentis''
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| [[Marcellus of Side]] || AD 2nd century || Greek || wrote a long medical poem
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| [[Quintus Gargilius Martialis]] || AD 3rd century || Roman || writer on horticulture, botany and medicine
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| [[Meges of Sidon]] || 1st century BC || Greek/Roman || surgeon
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| [[Menemachus]] || AD 2nd century || Greek || [[Methodic school]] of medicine
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| [[Menodotus of Nicomedia]] || AD 2nd century || Greek || Empiricist
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| [[Metrodora]] || AD 4th century || Greek || female gynecologist, author of ''On the Diseases and Cures of Women''.
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| [[Merit-Ptah]] || 27th century BC || Egyptian || early female physician
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| [[Mnesitheus]] || 4th century BC || Greek || classification of diseases
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| [[Sextius Niger]] || 1st century BC || Roman || [[pharmacology]]
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| [[Oribasius]] || AD 4th century || Greek || medical writer and person physician of [[Julian the Apostate]]
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| Paccius Antiochus || AD 1st century || Roman || wealthy commercial physician
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| [[Palladius (physician)]] || AD 6th century || Greek || professor of medicine at [[Alexandria]]
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| [[Paul of Aegina]] || AD 7th century || Byzantine Greek || ''[[Medical Compendium in Seven Books]]''
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| [[Penthu]] || 16th century BC || Egyptian || Chief Physician to [[Akhenaten]]
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| [[Peseshet]] || 25th century BC || Egyptian || one of the earliest known female physicians
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| [[Philagrius of Epirus]] || AD 3rd century || Greek || medical writers
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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 BC || Greek || reputed founder of the [[Empiric school]]
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| [[Philistion of Locri]] || 4th century BC || Greek || physician and writer of medicine
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| [[Philonides (physician)]] || AD 1st century || Greek || author of ''De Medicina''
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| [[Philoxenus (physician)]] || 3rd century BC || Greco-Egyptian || wrote several volumes on surgery
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| [[Philumenus]] || AD 3rd century || Greek ||
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| [[Plistonicus]] || 4th–3rd century BC || Greek || wrote a work on anatomy
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| [[Posidonius]] || 2nd–1st century BC || Greek || [[polymath]]
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| [[Praxagoras of Cos]] || 4th century BC || Greek || theory of circulation
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| [[Aelius Promotus]] || AD 2nd century || Greek || author of ''Medicinalium Formularum Collectio''
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| [[Qar (doctor)|Qar]] || 23rd century BC || Egyptian || Chief Physician during the [[Sixth dynasty of Egypt|Sixth dynasty]]
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| [[Raban Gamliel VI]] || AD 5th century || Hebrew || demonstrated a special remedy of the spleen
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| [[Rabâ-ša-Marduk]] || 13th century BC || Kassite ||
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| [[Rufus of Ephesus]] || AD 1st–2nd century || Greek || wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care
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| [[Serenus Sammonicus]] || AD 3rd century || Roman || author of a didactic medical poem ''Liber Medicinalis''
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| [[Scribonius Largus]] || AD 1st century || Roman || court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius
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| [[Serapion of Alexandria]] || 3rd century BC || Greek || member of the [[Empiric school]] of medicine
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| [[Sextius Niger]] || AD 1st century || Roman || author of the pharmacologist work ''On material''
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| [[Sextus Empiricus]] || AD 2nd century || Roman ||
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| [[Sextus Placitus]] || AD 4th century || Roman || author of ''Libri medicinae Sexti Placiti Papyriensis ex animalibus pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus Concordantiae''
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| [[Shepseskaf-ankh]] || 25th century BC ||Egyptian || Chief Physician during the [[Fifth dynasty of Egypt|Fifth dynasty]]
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| [[Soranus of Ephesus]] || AD 2nd century || Greek || author of treatise on [[gynecology]] and ''On Acute and Chronic Diseases''
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| [[Sushruta]] || 7th century BC || Indian || author of the treatise ''The Compendium of Suśruta''
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| [[Themison of Laodicea]] || 1st century BC || Greek || founder of the [[Methodic school]] of medicine
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| [[Theodorus Priscianus]] || AD 4th century || Roman || author of ''Medical Matters in Four Books''
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| [[Theophilus Protospatharius]] || AD 7th century || Greek ||
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|[[Vagbhata]]
|AD 4th century AD
|Indian
|He is considered to be "The Trinity" of [[Ayurveda|Ayurvedic]] knowledge
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| [[Theophrastus]] || 4th–3rd century BC || Greek ||
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| [[Thessalus of Tralles]] || AD 1st century || Roman || [[Methodic school]] of medicine, court physician of [[Emperor Nero]]
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| [[Xenocrates of Aphrodisias]] || AD 1st century || Greek || pharmaceutical writer, including ''On Useful Things from Living Beings''
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| [[Zhang Zhongjing]] || AD 150—219 || Chinese || made great contributions to the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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| [[Zopyrus (physician)]] || AD 1st century || Greek || antidote inventor
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