Imhotep
2650 BCE – 2600 BCE · Egypt · Medicine, Engineering
Architect of the first pyramid and the earliest named physician in history.
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- Galen of Pergamon
129 – 216 · Medicine, Philosophy
The Egyptian temple-medicine tradition, via Alexandria, is part of the corpus Galen systematised.
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