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800 BCE - 700 BCE: Homer's Iliad is composed with mention of medical treatment in Greek warfare.
700 BCE: First Greek medical school opens in Cnidus.
500 BCE: Asclepius becomes principal god of worship at Epidaurus.
460 BCE - 370 BCE: Traditional dates for the life of Hippocrates in Greece, the "father of medicine" and inventor of the Hippocratic Oath for physicians.
400 BCE - 390 BCE: A sanctuary to Asclepius is built at Agrigento.
325 BCE - 280 BCE: Life of Herophilus of Chalcedon, who studied the brain and the nervous system, attributing intelligence to the brain.