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Pictures of surgery tools at Kom Ombo, Egypt. Around 3100 BCE Egyptian civilization began to flourish when Narmer, the first Pharaoh of Egypt, established the capital of Memphis. Just as cuneiform tablets preserved the knowledge of the ancient Sumerians, hieroglyphics preserved the Egyptians'.
dates to Dynasties 16–17 of the Second Intermediate Period in ancient Egypt, c. 1500 BC, but believed to be a copy from Old Kingdom, 3000–2500 BC: Hieratic: The oldest known surgical treatise on trauma: The vast majority of the papyrus is concerned with trauma and surgery, with short sections on gynaecology and cosmetics on the verso.
Mohammed Aboul-Fotouh Hassab (Egyptian Arabic: محمد أبو الفتوح حساب) (2 December 1913 – 2000) was an Egyptian gastro-intestinal surgeon. He is known for the description of his operation Hassab's decongestion operation for the treatment of oesophageal varices as a result of portal hypertension.
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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]
The earliest known depiction of cataract surgery is on a statue from the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt (2467–2457 BCE). [90] According to Francisco J Ascaso et al , a "relief painting from tomb number TT 217 in a worker settlement in Deir el-Medina " shows "the man buried in the tomb, Ipuy ... one of the builders of royal tombs in the renowned ...
YouTube star Nikocado Avocado — who famously unveiled a sudden 250-lb. weight loss, seemingly overnight — has shared another secret: He got skin removal surgery. “I had a lot of loose skin ...
Excerebration can be traced back to the Old Kingdom through Greco-Roman Egypt. [2] The evidence of excerebration consists primarily of skull perforations. During the Old and Middle Kingdom there was a low frequency of skull perforations, leading some authors to hypothesize an alternative entrance via the foramen magnum. [2]