Revista médica de Chile
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Revista médica de Chile · Oct 2012
Biography Historical Article[The Edwin Smith papyrus in the history of medicine].
The historical bases of occidental medicine precede the Hippocratic corpus. Between the third and first millennium B. C. ⋯ PES is an insight into how medicine was practiced in ancient Egypt. Historically, it is also the first medical document based on objective observations, excluding all magical and religious perceptions, as well as the underlying cultural framework. The similarity between the current clinical method and that described in the Smith papyrus, strongly suggests the idea that part of the origin of medicine, can be found in ancient Egypt.