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Naturopathic Medicine
HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL FORMATION TIMELINE
27th c. BCE
FOUNDATIONS OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE
Era of
Ancient Medicine Roots 27th c. BCE-1000 CE
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HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGEBASE
ImHotep, called Imuthes (Ιμυθες) by the Greeks,
fl. 27th c. BCE (2655-2600 BCE). Physician, architect, engineer, court counselor; taught disease as a natural effect of one’s living out of alignment with Natural Law (Ma’at), not a punishment from the Neteru (deities). First historic human to be deified as a god of medicine; physician deity, as adopted son of Sekhmet and Ptah. Widespread temples of prayer, healing and intervention throughout the eastern Mediterranean dedicated to him over many centuries; considered by many as the origin of the healing mystery cults that became the Asklepian lineage. In considering the emergence of the medical profession, Sir William Osler described Imhotep as: “The first figure of a physician to stand out clearly from the mists of antiquity.” Contemporary HesiRe considered by some as the earliest known physician.
Merit-Ptah (”Beloved of Ptah”), chief court physician during the Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt; first woman known by name in the history of the field of medicine, and possibly the first named woman in Western science.
26th c. BCE
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGEBASE
Peseshet, female physician who lived during
the Fourth Dynasty in Egypt. Although trained as a midwife, she was given the title of “lady overseer of the female physicians.”
10th c. BCE
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
900 ca. BCE Greek temple medicine centered on Asklepios, Hygeia, Panacea, Apollo, and Chiron.
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