Excerpt from Quiz Questions on the History of Medicine
1. Who was the first doctor?
Adam was the first doctor; when ill he employed such methods as his reason or instinct suggested.
2. What connection did Tubal Cain have with surgery?
He invented cauterizing instruments, machines for reducing fractures, and surgical appliances.
3. Give some account of the state of medicine in ancient Egypt?
The ancient Egyptians hold the honor of being the first people to cultivate medicine as a science. They were a cultured people, having founded and advanced many of the sciences. Among others the art of embalming was excelled in. They were somewhat acquainted with the anatomy of the human body, and medicine was practiced by them as a science. Medicine was closely associated with the mythology of Egypt, the gods of health being Osiris, Isis, and Thoth. Thoth was called by the Greeks Hermes, and by the Latins, Mercury.
The Egpytians looked upon Thoth as the inventor of writing and all the sciences. Imhotpu was another divinity who presided over the cure of disease, and he was called the Aesculapius of the Egyptians.
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