This timeline traces changes taken place in medicine that were a great achievement and advancement for their time tracing these changes from Ancient Egypt to the 1600s. Innovation of medical practices and alternative uses of the tools they used to practice medicine are an important facet of societal advancement. Without these revolutionary ideas we may to this day still blame demons and the devil for our ailments instead of taking precautionary steps to prevent them.

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