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Table of Ancient Egyptian Physicians

Physician Name	Other names	Kings service & Dating	Titles	Gender	Medical practice Site	Medical legacy	Non medical legacy	Burial site
Imhotep	Egyptian ỉỉ-m-ḥtp *jā-im-ḥātap meaning "the one who comes in peace, is with peace", Immutef, Im-hotep, or Ii-em-Hotep; called Imuthes (Ἰμούθης)	Djoser circa 2650–2600 BC	Chancellor of the King of Egypt, Doctor, First in line after the King of Upper Egypt, Administrator of the Great Palace, Hereditary nobleman, High Priest of Heliopolis, Builder, Chief Carpenter, Chief Sculptor, and Maker of Vases in Chief.	M	Memphis	author of Edwin Smith papyrus. Two thousand years after his death, Imhotep's status was raised to that of a deity of medicine and healing.	Imhotep was one of the chief officials of the Pharaoh Djoser and Egyptologists ascribe to him the designed the Pyramid of Djoser (the Step Pyramid) at Saqqara in Egypt in 2630 – 2611 BC. He may have been responsible for the first known use of columns to support a building. The Egyptian historian Manetho credited him with inventing the method of a stone-dressed building during Djoser's reign.	Probably Saqqara
Hesy-Ra	re-hesy, Hesire, Hesira	Djoser ca. 2670 BC	Chief of Dentists and Physicians and Chief of the King's Scribes, Elder of the qedhetep; father of Min, Fashioner of the cult image of Mehyt, king's acquaintance, Overseer of the royal scribes; Great one of the 10 of Upper Egypt	M	N/A	possibly the first known Physician in history	Wooden panel set of Hesy-Ra	buried in an elaborate tomb at Saqqara
Merit-Ptah	Beloved of the god Ptah	ca. 2700 BCE	the Chief Physician	F	N/A	possibly the first known female Physician and scientist in history	Her image in a tomb in Saqqara	N/A
Penthu	N/A	Akhetaten ca. 1350 BC	The sealbearer of the King of Lower Egypt, the sole companion, the attendant of the Lord of the Two Lands, the favorite of the good god, king's scribe, the king's subordinate, First servant of the Aten in the mansion of the Aten in Akhetaten, Chief of physicians, and chamberlain	M	Aten	Chief Physician to Akhenaten, but may have survived the upheavals of the end of the Amarna period, and served under Ay, after being Vizier under Tutankhamun	Vizier to king	Amarna Tomb 5
Peseshet	N/A	Fourth Dynasty of Egypt ca. 2500	lady overseer of the female physicians	F	N/A	?Midwife, 2nd earliest known female physician in ancient Egypt	A personal stela at Akhethetep her son's tomb	N/A
Qar	N/A	Sixth dynasty of Egypt ca. 2350-2180 BC	The royal physician	M	N/A	The oldest Bronze or copper surgical tool in the world	His mummy in the limestone sarcophagus and 22 bronze statues of different deities and statuette of Imhotep the physician	He died at the age of fifty years and was burried in his tomb at Saqqara, which was re-used several times
Psamtikseneb	may King Psamtik be healthy	Dynasty 26 ca. 664-525 B.C	The Head of Physicians, the scorpion charmer, chief physician and chief dentist (wr ἰbḥ) of Psamtik Seneb, an admiral of the royal fleet	M	N/A	N/A	Ushabti of the Head of Physician Psamtik-seneb, photo in relief of Ankh-ef-en-Sekhmet Entertained by a Harpist	His tomb discovered at Heliopolis in 1931/32 A.D
Udjahorresnet	Wedjahor-Resne or Udjahor-Resnet	00	The Head of Physicians, superviser of the the medical schools -the 'Houses of life'; the prince, the royal chancellor, the unique companion, the prophet of the one who lives with them, the chief physician, the one truly known and loved by the king, the scribe, the inspector of the scribes of the dedet-court, the first among the great scribes of the prison, the director of the palace, the admiral of the royal navy of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt Khnemibre [Amasis], the admiral of the royal navy of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Ankhkaenre [Psammetichus III], head of the province of Sais Peftuôneit	M	N/A	Wedjahor-Resne composed Cambyses' new royal name, Mesuti-Ra ('born of Ra')	His titles are preserved on a beautiful statue(Vatican inv.196)	His tomb has been discovered in 1995 at Abusir
Harsiese son of Ramose	00	from Amasis to Darius I	The Head of Physicians, chief physician of Upper and Lower Egypt, leader of Aegean foreign (troops) and admiral of the royal fleet	M	N/A	N/A	mentioned in Instructions of Chasheshonqy (P. BM 10508) as the source of the plot that led to the imprisonment of the unfortunate Onchsheshonqy (P. BM. 10508 col. 1 to 3)	Saqqara
Petuaneith	N/A	Saite period during the reign of Amasis	The Chief physician	M	N/A	N/A	A naophorous statue of the chief physician Petuaneith (Louvre A 93), he restored the temple of Abydos	N/A
Iwti	N/A	19th dynasty ca, 2500 B.C	The Chief physician	M	N/A	N/A	He had a statue at Lieden	N/A

Table of Ancient Egyptian medical papyri

Papyrus Name	Other names	Dating	Language	Medical specialties	Contents	Scribe/Author	Date & place of discovery	place of preserving	size	image
Edwin Smith Papyrus	Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus	dates to Dynasties 16-17 of the Second Intermediate Period in Ancient Egypt, ca. 1500 BCE but believed to be a copy from Old Kingdom, 3000-2500 BCE	Hieratic	The oldest known surgical treatise on trauma	The vast majority of the papyrus is concerned with trauma and surgery, with short sections on gynaecology and cosmetics on the verso. On the recto side, there are 48 cases of injury. The verso side consists of eight magic spells and five prescriptions. The oldest known surgical treatise on trauma	Attributed by some toImhotep	Luxor, Egypt before 1862	New York Academy of Medicine	a scroll 4.68 m in length. The recto (front side) has 377 lines in 17 columns, while the verso (backside) has 92 lines in five columns	File:Edwin Smith Papyrus v2.jpg
Ebers Papyrus	Papyrus Ebers	c. 1550 BC but believed to be a copy from earlier texts of 3400 BC	Hieratic	Medicine, Obestitrics &gynecology & Surgery	The scroll contains some 700 magical formulas and remedies, chapters on contraception, diagnosis of pregnancy and other gynecological matters, intestinal disease and parasites, eye and skin problems, dentistry and the surgical treatment of abscesses and tumors, bone-setting and burns	N/A	Assassif district of the Theban necropolis before 1862	Library of University of Leipzig, Germany	a 110-page scroll, which is about 20 meters long	File:PEbers c41-bc.jpg
Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus	Kahun Papyrus, Kahun Medical Papyrus, or UC 32057	ca. 1800 BCE	Hieratic	Medicine, Obestitrics & gynecology, pediatrics and veterinary medicine	The text is divided into thirty-four sections that deals with women's health—gynaecological diseases, fertility, pregnancy, contraception, etc. The later Berlin Papyrus and the Ramesseum Papyrus IV cover much of the same ground, often giving identical prescriptions	N/A	El-Lahun by Flinders Petrie in 1889	University College London	2 gynecologic papyri &1 veterinary payrus	File:PKahun LV2.jpg
Ramesseum medical papyri	Ramesseum medical papyri parts III, IV, and V	18th century BC	Hieroglyphic & hieratic	Medicine, gynecology, ophthalmology, rheumatology & pediatrics	A collection of ancient Egyptian medical documents in parts III, IV, and V, and written in vertical columns that mainly dealt with ailments, diseases, the structure of the body, and supposed remedies used to heal these afflictions. namely ophthalmologic ailments, gynaecology, muscles, tendons, and diseases of children	N/A	Ramesseum temple	Oxford Ashmoulian Museum	3 papyri (parts III, IV, V)	N/A
Hearst papyrus	Hearst Medical Papyrus	18th Dynasty of Egypt, around time of Tuthmosis III ca. 0000 but believed to have been composed earlier, during the Middle Kingdom, around 2000 BC	Hieratic	Urology, Medicine and bites	260 paragraphs on 18 columns in 18 pages of medical prescriptions for problems of urinary system, blood, hair, and bites	N/A	discovered by an Egyptian peasant of village of Der-el-Ballas before 1901	Bancroft Library, University of California	18 pages	File:Papyrus Hearst Plate 2.jpg
London Medical Papyrus	BM EA 10059	19th dynasty 1300 BC or ca. 1629–1628 BC	Hieratic	skin complaints, eye complaints, bleeding, miscarriage and burns	61 recipes, of which 25 are classified as medical the remainder are of magic	N/A	N/A	Royal institute of London	File:London Medical Papyrus 15.jpg
Brugsch Papyrus	Pap. Berl. 3038, the Greater Berlin Papyrus	19th dynasty, and dated ca. 1350 - 1200 BC	Hieratic ?	Medical	discussing general medical cases and bears a great similarity to the Ebers papyrus. Some historians believe that this papyrus was used by Galen in his writings	24 pages (21 to the front and 3 on the back)	N/A	Discovered by an Egyptian in Saqqara before 1827	Berlin Museum	N/A
Carlsberg papyrus	N/A	between the 19th and 20th dynasties, New Kingdom ; its style relates it to the 12th dynasty. Some fragments date back to ca. 2000 B.C., others — the Tebtunis manuscripts — date back to ca. 1st century A.D	Hieratic, Demotic. Hieroglyphs and in Greek	Obestitrics & gynecology, Medicine, Pediatrics & ophthalmology	The structure of the papyrus bears great resemblance to that of the Kahun and Berlin papyri.	N/A	N/A	N/A	Egyptological Institute of the University of Copenhague	N/A
Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus	Chester Beatty Papyri, Papyrus VI of the Chester Beatty Papyri 46 (Papyrus no. 10686, British Museum), Chester Beatty V BM 10685, VI BM 10686, VII BM 10687, VIII BM 10688, XV BM 10695	dated around 1200 BC]	Heritic?	Headche, and Anorectal disorders	Magic spells and medical reciepes for headache & anorectal disease	N/A	started off as a private collection by the scribe Qen-her-khepeshef in the 19th Dynasty and passed on down through his family until there were placed in a tomb	Deir el-Medina (the workers village) in 1928	British Museum	N/A
Brooklyn Papyrus	47.218.48 och 47.218.85, also known as the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus	a collection of papyri which belong to the end of the 30th dynasty, dated to around 450 BC, , or the beginning of the Ptolemaic Period. However, it is written with the Middle Kingdom style which could suggest its origin might be from the Thirteenth dynasty of Egypt	Hiertic??	deals only with snakes and scorpion bites, and the formulae to drive out the poison of such animals	It speaks about remedies to drive out poison from snakes, scorpions and tarantulas. The style of these remedies relates to that of the Ebers papyrus	a scroll of papyrus divided into two parts with some parts missing, its total length is estimated to 175 × 27 cm	N/A	might originate from a temple at ancient Heliopolis, discovered before 1885	Brooklyn Museum in New York	N/A
Berlin Papyrus	Berlin Papyrus 6619	Middle Kingdom	???	Medicine & Mathematics	the first known documentation concerning pregnancy test procedures	N/A	N/A	Saqqara in the early 19th century CE	Berlin Museum	N/A
Erman Papyrus	given with the Westcar papyrus to Berlin museum	Middle dated from the beginning of the New Kingdom (16th century BC)	???	Medicine, Magic & Anatomy	holds some medical formulae and a list of anatomic names (body and viscera) and about 20 magical formulae	N/A	N/A	before 1886 AD	Berlin Museum	N/A
Leiden Papyrus	Rijksmuseum, Leiden 1343-1345	18th-19th dynastie	???	Medicine, Magic	It mostly deals with magical texts	N/A	N/A	N/A	Rijks museum, Leiden	N/A