Who Was Imhotep
"The first Figure of a Physician to stand out dearly from the Mists of Antiquity." Sir W. Osler
"The first Figure of a Physician to stand out dearly from the Mists of Antiquity." Sir W. Osler
"In the childhood of the world Egypt was the pioneer country as regards the evolution of medicine. To her belongs the high honor of having raised the healing art to a level far exceeding that hitherto attained. Both in diagnosis and in therapeutics astonishing progress was made. Even pathology attracted widespread interest ; the Edwin Smith Papyrus suggests that dissection of the human body was systematically practiced in ancient times. The medical schools of Egypt, closely associated with her priest-craft and temples, were famous far and wide, her specialist physicians being summoned to attend royal and other personages in distant lands. For a physician to have been educated in Egypt was in itself a passport to success. This high reputation is acknowledged by Homer when he says : ' In Egypt the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind..." From the e-book below