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Health & biology · c. 1,600 BCE

Edwin Smith Papyrus

An Egyptian surgical manual that examined, diagnosed and treated 48 injury cases rationally.

Copied around 1600 BCE from older texts, it describes wounds, fractures and the brain with little magic. It is the oldest known surgical treatise and shows medicine becoming a written, case-based discipline.

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