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Institutions, called (Per Ankh) [34] or Houses of Life, are known to have been established in ancient Egypt since the 1st Dynasty and may have had medical functions, being at times associated in inscriptions with physicians, such as Peftauawyneit and Wedjahorresnet living in the middle of the 1st millennium BC. [35]
Egyptian One of the first recorded physicians Bogar: 3rd century BCE Indian The Pharmacognosy is the best known of his treatises Tirumular: 2nd century BCE Indian Aegimus: 5th century BCE: Greek: first person who wrote a treatise on the pulse Korakkar: 2nd century BCE Indian His works include Korakkar Malai Vagatam (Korakkar's Mountain ...
Peseshet’s relevant title was "lady overseer of the female physicians," [3] [4] but whether she was a physician herself is uncertain. [5] She also had the titles king's acquaintance, and overseer of funerary-priests of the king's mother. [6] She is believed to have had a son, Akhethetep, in whose mastaba at Giza her personal false door was found.
Sekhmet, goddess of healing and medicine of Upper Egypt; Heka, deification of magic, through which Egyptians believed they could gain protection, healing and support; Serket, goddess of healing stings and bites; Ta-Bitjet, a scorpion goddess whose blood is a panacea for all poisons; Isis, goddess of healing, magic, marriage and protection
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Merit-Ptah first appears in literature in a 1937 book by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead on female doctors. [10] Campbell Hurd-Mead presents two ancient Egyptian female doctors, an unnamed one dating to the Fifth Dynasty and Merit-Ptah, dating evidently to the New Kingdom as Hurd-Mead states that she is shown in the Valley of the Kings (the burial ground of Egyptian kings from about 1500 BCE to 1080 BCE).
Literate, high-status men with writing ability were responsible for recordkeeping in ancient Egypt. But the job left a mark on their skeletons, a new analysis shows. Skeletons reveal what life was ...
The ancient Greeks appreciated Egypt and saw in it a mysterious land, fertile with hidden wisdom. At one point, they united all the different medical doctrines originating in the East and in Alexandria (which increasingly resembled a cosmopolitan city) in Egypt, and merged it into one universal critical mass of knowledge.