Saccording to Homer, who lived around -850, that is 400 years before Herodotus of Halicarnassus the "father" of history, "... Egypt, country where the doctors are the most learned in the world" in Odyssey, IV, 231. In Egyptian ancient, physicians were designated by the term sin (the w being the plural mark from three) and surgeons by the term priests of Sekmet, the lioness-headed goddess. It is said that this goddess forms with the Memphite God Ptah, the parent couple of Imhotep, the oldest attested doctor in the history of mankind. For the famous English doctor of Canadian origin Sir William Osler, IMHOTEP DE MEMPHIS born more precisely in the suburb of Memphis Ankhtawy is the true father of medicine.
We know that his father Kanefer was an architect and his mother is Dame Khredwankh. He is well known in the history of the Nile Valley as head of the administration of Pharaoh Djoser and the architect who inaugurated the freestone works with the famous step pyramid of Saqqara next to Memphis, the capital of the Old Kingdom. Imhotep was also a philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, priest, politician… he was elevated to the rank of divinity.
According to François Daumas, French Egyptologist from the University of Montpellier, the marks of the famous medicine of the Nile valley are legion in the Hippocratic corpus which is the basis of modern Western medicine. This heterogeneous corpus dating from a time after the famous Greek physician of the island of Kos (-460 to -370) and attributed to the latter corresponds, on examination of the texts and style, to a compilation of the recipes of the divine poly scient IMHOTEP DE MEMPHIS (more than 3000 years before our era) and his followers whose writings remain to be discovered. Most of these writings were destroyed by grave robbers, and in the burning of the Library of Alexandria and the destruction of the collection of ramesseums. You should know that it is this Ancestor Imhotep of Memphis, better known as an architect than a doctor, whom the Greeks called Asklepios and the Romans Aesculapius.
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