Also, the earliest known woman physician, Peseshet, practiced in Ancient Egypt at the time of the 4th dynasty.

* William Henry Farrow ( 1805 ?– 1876 ), physician born and trained in England and practiced in Canada

* c. 484 – 425 BC Herodotus tells us Egyptian doctors were specialists: Medicine is practiced among them on a plan of separation ; each physician treats a single disorder, and no more.

It was named for William M. Alexander, a physician who practiced in the town of America ( the first county seat ).

The word " eclectic " is defined as " being composed of elements drawn from various sources ", and tradition has it that the town was named by a local physician who practiced eclectic medicine and so named the town because of the various surrounding geographic areas.

As a physician, Wong practiced and taught acupuncture and other forms of traditional Chinese medicine in Po-chi-lam ( T: 寶芝林, S: 宝芝林, P: Bǎozhīlín, J: bou2 zi1 lam4 ), his private clinic in Foshan, Guangdong.

The Louisiana physician and politician Alvan Lafargue practiced medicine in Cheneyville after 1910.

The Louisiana physician and politician Alvan Lafargue practiced in Baldwin, his wife's hometown, prior to 1915.

* Alvan Lafargue, Louisiana physician and politician, practiced medicine briefly in Franklin prior to 1915.

The home's owner was a Pennsylvania-trained physician who practiced medicine after relocating to Davidson County.

* Dr. Charles E. Sawyer-a homeopathic physician who is blamed for giving a false diagnosis of U. S. President Warren G. Harding that led to Harding's premature death, practiced medicine in LaRue.

" Avenzoar, an Arabic physician in 12th-century Moorish Spain who also practiced dissection, introduced animal testing as an experimental method of testing surgical procedures before applying them to human patients.

Two offers made to him to go to New South Wales in some official capacity came to nothing, and in October 1801 Park moved to Peebles, where he practiced as a physician.

The priests who practiced exorcisms in these nations were called ashipu ( sorcerer ) as opposed to an asu ( physician ) who applied bandages and salves.

Jackson was a wealthy physician who had practiced for a few years in the towns of Brattleboro and Burlington, Vermont.

Subsequently, he practiced as a physician in his native Grave.

He and fellow physician Herophilus practiced anatomy with great success, and with such ardour that they are supposed to have dissected criminals alive.

He became Master of Magdalen College School and afterwards practiced as a physician in Oxford.

Torrey then practiced general medicine in Ethiopia for two years as a Peace Corps physician and in the South Bronx.

The Greek physician Asclepiades ( c. 124 – 40 BC ), who practiced in Rome, discarded it and advocated humane treatments, and had insane persons freed from confinement and treated them with natural therapy, such as diet and massages.

Latham practiced as a physician at Dartford in Kent, where he collected the Dartford Warbler.

He practiced as a physician in Florida after becoming an MD.

Kitzhaber practiced medicine from 1973 to 1986 in Roseburg, Oregon as an emergency room physician.

One of them was an alcoholic physician named Kelly who practiced in Draperstown, in the north of Ireland.

It was named after Dr. Seth Porter Ford ( 1818 – 1866 ), a Boston physician who practiced medicine at the Hawaiian Insane Asylum and the US Seamen's Hospital from 1861 – 1866 after Charles Guillou.

The degree to which these principles are practiced is different for householders and monks.

He received his medical degree from Université de Lyon, and practiced in France and in the United States at the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

He practiced as a surveyor and civil engineer for two years before entering the United States Military Academy in 1838.

The ancient peoples of the Andes such as the Incas have practiced irrigation techniques for over 6, 000 years.

Peasant farmers who once practiced subsistence farming are being forced to farm what is best for foreign trade, mostly wine and oil.

Removal of teeth, mainly incisors, is or was practiced by some cultures for ritual purposes ( for instance in the Iberomaurusian culture of Neolithic North Africa ).

This technique, famously practiced by Eddie Stanky of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is where the runner does not break immediately for second when the pitcher commits to the plate.

" Thus declaring that the burnt offering of both animals and humans ( which may have been practiced in Judah under Kings Ahaz and Manasseh ) is not necessary for God.

The genesis of chemistry can be traced to certain practices, known as alchemy, which had been practiced for several millennia in various parts of the world, particularly the Middle East.

In parts of Melanesia, cannibalism was still practiced in the early 20th century, for a variety of reasons — including retaliation, to insult an enemy people, or to absorb the dead person's qualities.

Illegal and punishable crime is the violation of any rule of administrative, fiscal or criminal liability on the part of agents of the state or practice of any wrongdoing and notoriously harmful to self or against third parties, provided for in criminal law, since they practiced with guilt ( the first act that causes injury criminal actions or omissions to produce adequate evidence also illegal ).

" Attributes that are seen as religious — such as ancestor worship, ritual, and sacrifice — were advocated by Confucius as necessary for social harmony ; however, these attributes can be traced to the traditional non-Confucian Chinese beliefs of Chinese folk religion, and are also practiced by Daoists and Chinese Buddhists.

* in the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor, Tom Hiddleston practiced the art of Capoeira for his role as Loki.

Areas where shifting cultivation or slash and burn agriculture are practiced are generally only fertile for 2 – 3 years before they are abandoned.

The vegetarianism practiced in much of India has made pulses ( crops harvested solely for the dry seed ) such as chickpeas and lentils as significant as wheat or rice.

* Deposition ( university ), a widespread initiation ritual for new students practiced from the Middle Ages until the 18th century

Small scale deforestation was practiced by some societies for tens of thousands of years before the beginnings of civilization.

Dominic practiced self-scourging and would mortify himself as he prayed alone in the chapel at night for ' poor sinners.

* Removal of a certain percentage of students for improvisation of academics ( usually practiced in schools, after 10th grade )

Terracing is an extremely effective means of erosion control, which has been practiced for thousands of years by people all over the world.

Using explosives for fishing, called dynamite fishing, became popular in the 1980s and is still practiced by some even though it is illegal today.

Fellatio is also sometimes practiced when sexual intercourse can create a physical difficulty for a sex partner.

Grappling is a general term that covers techniques used in many disciplines, styles and martial arts that are practiced both as combat sports and for self defense.

This type of war can be practiced anywhere there are places for combatants to cover themselves and where such advantage cannot be made use of by a larger and more conventional force.