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Imhotep founded a school of medicine in Memphis over 2,000 years before the Greek physician, Hippocrates. He is said to have extracted substances from plants and treated diseases such as appendicitis, gout and arthritis.
After his death he was deified and later associated with the Greek father of medicine, Aslepius. Both the Greeks and Romamns built temples to him and pilgrimages were made to these sites by people looking for cures. This continued until the Arab invasion of North Africa in the 7th century AD when Islam was introduced.
In modern times his name has been used in Hollywood horror films like The Mummy.
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