Medicine & Surgery
Early tonsillectomy
c. 1000 BCEAncient Indian medicineEarly medical textsPan-Indian / unspecified
1,000 BCE
An early reference to removing the tonsils.
- Dated
- 1,000 BCE
- As scholars put it
- c. 1000 BCE
- Originator
- Ancient Indian medicine
- Source text
- Early medical texts
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Medicine & Surgery
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- Low
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Tonsillectomy has been practised for over 2,000 years.
Fair to say
The very early dating rests on limited textual evidence.
Path to modern innovation
Still a common ENT operation.
Transmission
Ancient practice.
References
- 1McNeill (1960), history of tonsillectomy
Further reading
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