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The Father Of Medicine A Historical Reconsideration
Mostafa SHEHATA, MD,a
aOtolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandrias, EGYPT
The early beginning of medicine appeared in ancient Egypt. It was written on the medical papyri, more than a thousand years before Greek time. The Greeks and Romans extolled the antiquity, wisdom and scientific knowledge of the Egyptians and added their own experience. Hippocrates' activities and writings are obscuring and available information is much doubted. Writings attributed to Hippocrates and his followers are full of quotations from the ancient Egyptian medicine. In this paper, it is emphasized that the original home of medical science is Egypt and not Greece.Keywords: Greek medicine, Egyptian medicine, HippokratesTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 2004, 12:171-176
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