Egypt had professional doctors as early as the old kingdom
5,000 years ago. There were also specialists in different
branches of medicine. Homer (ca. 800 BC) remarked in the
Odyssey: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled inmedicine than
any of human kind". Hippocrates, Herophilos, Erasistratus
and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and
acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine
to Greek medicine [1].