P@triot
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Medicine hardly existed? Benjamin Franklin built the first hospital in the U.S. in Philadelphia in the 1700’s.How convenient that socialized medicine didn't exist in the 18th century. Hell medicine itself hardly yet existed ---
As far as physicians - they can trace that back at least 5,000 years to Imhotep of the Egyptian dynasty.
The first physician to emerge is Imhotep, chief minister to King Djoser in the 3rd millennium bce, who designed one of the earliest pyramids, the Step Pyramid at Ṣaqqārah, and who was later regarded as the Egyptian god of medicine and identified with the Greek god Asclepius.Oct 25, 2017
Medical information in the Edwin Smith Papyrus may date to a time as early as 3000 BC. Imhotep in the 3rd dynasty is sometimes credited with being the founder of ancient Egyptian medicine and with being the original author of the Edwin Smith Papyrus, detailing cures, ailments and anatomical observations.