[Renfield]

Pingy....

[Red Badger]

So the Greeks were Hippocrites?.........

[Lokibob]

The Greeks invented sex, but the Italians modified it to involve women.

.....Bob

[Dustbunny]

Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine

I thought that was always a known fact. We were taught that in school, course that was over 50 years ago when they actually taught the truth.

[wideawake]

showed that ancient Egyptian physicians treated wounds with honey

If you want to make absolutely, positively sure that a wound will be infected - put some honey on it.

[Old_Mil]

...this joined a historic cohort of cures for diseases dating back to the Ancient Egyptians: pig's eyes, bat's blood, dog's urine and crocodile dung.

Sure, and the Sioux were on the verge of perfecting warp drive before Custer attacked.

[Londo Molari]

That was well before islam took hold in Egypt. Now Egypt is a backward hellhole full of cult members.

[Alkhin]

There is a book I read once, and I need to get a copy again, because it is a very good look at the life of Luke - called “Dear and Glorious Physician” and Luke’s mentor is an Egyptian medicine man who teaches Luke much of what he knows. I almost more fascinated by the Egyptian than I was by Luke. I highly recommend this book.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield. Berosus, could be an opportunity to talk about the Jew from Byblos. :')

I've seen a note about the ancient Egyptian use of crocodile dung for eye infections -- there's a naturally occurring antibiotic in the dung. Think it was a footnote in de Selincourt's translation of Herodotus. I would guess that the properties were discovered because crocs' eyes stick up above the surface, it was magical thinking that happened to work out.

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[Canticle_of_Deborah]

placemark for later.

[apro]

They call this a “new discrovery”? Pathetic. The Greeks themselves state their knowledge on medicine and other aspects of their culture was derived from the Egyptians and other ME cultures. How stupid are these researchers? I think they are too many such “scholars” out there nowadays who want their names to be claimed in fame somehow and history books to remember them as one of the few who ‘discovered new evidence’ about ancient civilizations.