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International Orthopaedics
Published in: International Orthopaedics 4/2014

01-04-2014 | ORTHOPAEDIC HERITAGE

Orthopaedics in the dawn of civilisation, practices in ancient Egypt

Author: Galal Zaki Said

Published in: International Orthopaedics | Issue 4/2014

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Excerpt

Egypt had professional doctors as early as the old kingdom 5,000 years ago. There were also specialists in different branches of medicine. Homer (ca. 800 BC) remarked in the Odyssey: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind". Hippocrates, Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine [1]. …
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Title
Orthopaedics in the dawn of civilisation, practices in ancient Egypt
Author
Galal Zaki Said
Publication date
01-04-2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
International Orthopaedics / Issue 4/2014
Print ISSN: 0341-2695
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5195
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-013-2183-z

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