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F. Jonckheere, Les Médecins de l'Egypte Pharaonique, Brussels, 1958, 23.
B. Van de Walle and H. Meulenaere, 'Compléments à la prosopographie médicale', Revue d'Egyptologie, 1973, 25:58-83, C2.
P. Ghaliounghui, The Physicians of Pharaonic Egypt, Cairo, 1983, p. 32, no. 119.
J. F. Nunn, Ancient Egyptian Medicine, London, 1996, p. 214, no. 141.
Pa'an-meniu (trans. "Beauty has landed") was an important physician/priest, holding religious positions in both Northern and Southern Egyptian temples, temples being synonymous with healing. A sanatorium was often attached to temples, especially in the later periods, magic and religion playing a major role in the treatment of patients. There is a view that the House of Life (pr ankh) in the temple might have been a medical school. However, in the Edwin Smith and parts of the Ebers papyri the Egyptian healers appear to arrive at a diagnosis and treatment through listening, observation and examination. These practitioners of 'conventional medicine' were called swnw (sewnew) (Coptic SAEIN); wr swnw can be translated as "master physician" (R. O. Faulkner, A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford, 1962) or "chief of doctors" (Nunn, op. cit., 1996, pp. 116-117). The names of nine of these are known from the Third Intermediate and Late Period. Herodotus, visiting Egypt about 430 B.C., commented on the degree of specialisation he found, with distinction made between gastroenterologists, ophthalmologists and even proctologists.
Sekhmet "Mistress of Life", with her two distinct aspects of destruction and protection/healing, was the patron deity of doctors, here seen being approached by Haroeris (the god associated with healing at Kom-Ombo where a well-known relief depicts a tall box of surgical instruments) accompanied by his human consort. The trinities of Thebes, Abydos and Memphis line up behind.
Pa'an-meniu is known, also, from an unpublished inscribed head in Berlin museum (253).
F. Jonckheere, Les Médecins de l'Egypte Pharaonique, Brussels, 1958, 23.
B. Van de Walle and H. Meulenaere, 'Compléments à la prosopographie médicale', Revue d'Egyptologie, 1973, 25:58-83, C2.
P. Ghaliounghui, The Physicians of Pharaonic Egypt, Cairo, 1983, p. 32, no. 119.
J. F. Nunn, Ancient Egyptian Medicine, London, 1996, p. 214, no. 141.
Pa'an-meniu (trans. "Beauty has landed") was an important physician/priest, holding religious positions in both Northern and Southern Egyptian temples, temples being synonymous with healing. A sanatorium was often attached to temples, especially in the later periods, magic and religion playing a major role in the treatment of patients. There is a view that the House of Life (pr ankh) in the temple might have been a medical school. However, in the Edwin Smith and parts of the Ebers papyri the Egyptian healers appear to arrive at a diagnosis and treatment through listening, observation and examination. These practitioners of 'conventional medicine' were called swnw (sewnew) (Coptic SAEIN); wr swnw can be translated as "master physician" (R. O. Faulkner, A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford, 1962) or "chief of doctors" (Nunn, op. cit., 1996, pp. 116-117). The names of nine of these are known from the Third Intermediate and Late Period. Herodotus, visiting Egypt about 430 B.C., commented on the degree of specialisation he found, with distinction made between gastroenterologists, ophthalmologists and even proctologists.
Sekhmet "Mistress of Life", with her two distinct aspects of destruction and protection/healing, was the patron deity of doctors, here seen being approached by Haroeris (the god associated with healing at Kom-Ombo where a well-known relief depicts a tall box of surgical instruments) accompanied by his human consort. The trinities of Thebes, Abydos and Memphis line up behind.
Pa'an-meniu is known, also, from an unpublished inscribed head in Berlin museum (253).