[A critical regard over the medicine in the Ancient Egypt].
Generally, writing about the medicine in the Ancient Egypt, historians adopt an approach rather benevolent than critical, giving to its practice merits that never had. Reading without prejudice the famous twelve papyri -and now one more- we can't less to pronounce a condemnatory sentence, because at the end this medicine looks like a patchwork of ignorance, superstition, magic believes and a pair of grains of knowledge. However, we can rescue its surgical practice, very useful, sometimes efficient, and quite necessary in those centuries of war, slavery and permanent abuse of the weak and the poor people by the high political rulers and priests.
Centro de Estudios Humanistas Julio Prado, Santiago, Chile, revinf@sochinf.cl.
Walter
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Ledermann
D001108:Architecture / Q000266:history; D000076144:Egypt, Ancient; D006666:History of Medicine; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*