title: Ancient Egyptian surgical heritage.
abstract: Egyptian medicine influenced the medicine of neighboring cultures, including the culture of ancient Greece. From Greece, its influence spread onward, thereby affecting Western civilization significantly. The oldest extant Egyptian medical texts are six papyri: The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus and the Ebers Medical Papyrus are famous.
authors.affiliation: Port-Fouad General Hospital, Port-Fouad, Port-Said, Egypt. Alysaber54@gmail.com
authors.forename: Aly
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saber
mesh_terms: D000076144:Egypt, Ancient; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000266:history; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D014207:Trephining / Q000266:history