c. 2,800 BCE
Medicine
Egypt
Ebers and Edwin Smith surgical practice
Egyptian physicians recorded examinations, prognoses and treatments for wounds and fractures.
Why it mattered
The earliest systematic, non-magical clinical reasoning.
Bronze Age
2,800 BCE
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