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Known ancient Egyptian specialists are ophthalmologist, gastroenterologist, proctologist, dentist, "doctor who supervises butchers" and an unspecified "inspector of liquids". The ancient Egyptian term for proctologist, neru phuyt , literally translates as "shepherd of the anus".
Two doctors, the first a Pneumaticist, the second an Empiricist Hua Tuo: 2nd century CE: Chinese: abilities in acupuncture, moxibustion, herbal medicine and medical Daoyin exercises Huangfu Mi: 3rd century CE: Chinese: compiled the Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion: Ji Ben: 3rd century CE: Chinese: physician who started a failed rebellion ...
Egyptian medical papyri are ancient Egyptian texts written on papyrus which permit a glimpse at medical procedures and practices in ancient Egypt. These papyri give details on disease, diagnosis, and remedies of disease, which include herbal remedies, surgery, and magical incantations. Many of these papyri have been lost due to grave robbery.
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. Thus the country swarms with medical practitioners, some undertaking to cure diseases of the eye, others of the head, others again of the teeth, others of the ...
Egyptian public health doctors (2 P) R. Egyptian radiologists (3 P) S. Egyptian surgeons (4 C, 11 P) T. Egyptian tropical physicians (1 P) V. Egyptian virologists (2 P)
The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian medical text, named after Edwin Smith who bought it in 1862, and the oldest known surgical treatise [2] on trauma.. This document, which may have been a manual of military surgery, describes 48 cases of injuries, fractures, wounds, dislocations and tumors. [3]
An Egyptian medical textbook, the Edwin Smith Papyrus written by Imhotep (fl. 2630-2611 BC), was the first to apply the method of diagnosis to the treatment of disease. [1] Physicians in Ancient Egypt were only able to come up with diagnostics based on symptoms, no tests were being run. [2]
The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus (also Petrie Medical Papyrus, Kahun Medical Papyrus, Lahun Medical Papyrus, or UC32057) is the oldest known medical text in Egyptian history, dated to c. 1825 BCE, during the Twelfth Dynasty. The Papyrus addresses gynecological health concerns, pregnancy, fertility, and various treatments.