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Imhotep
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27thc. bce
Imotep (Greek: Imuthes, Ἰμούθης) fl. 27th c. BCE (2655-2600 BCE) Physician (swnw), architect, engineer, court counselor of Khem (ancient Egypt). Taught disease as a natural effect of living out of alignment with Ma’at (Natural Law and Justice), not a punishment from the Neteru (deities). First historic human to be deified as a god of medicine, a physician deity, as the adopted son of deities Sekhmet and Ptah. Numerous temples of prayer, healing, and intervention throughout the Mediterranean dedicated to him
over many centuries. Considered by many as originator of healing mystery cults that became the Asklepian lineage. Sir William Osler described Imhotep as “the first figure of a physician to stand out clearly from the mists of antiquity.” HesiRe considered by others as the earliest known physician in the West.
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