Who was the father of medcine

Originally posted by heru
Whatever, You no what's crazy. How is it the very people you give credit to, gives it to someone else? Ironic isn't it.

Somebody being first doesn't make him the most important person. You would hardly call the inventor of the wheel the inventor of cars would you?

Originally posted by Fishy
Somebody being first doesn't make him the most important person. You would hardly call the inventor of the wheel the inventor of cars would you?

I'm pretty sure Aklepilus is the name of a healer god.

Originally posted by Eis
That is probably the crappest analogy I've read today.

Asclepius is indeed the Greek god of Medicine. People sometimes use it interchangeably with Imhotep though. Makes more sense to me to simply call him by his Egyptian name though, seeing as he is Egyptian and such.

Why?

There is a huge difference between a wheel and a car, although the car requires the wheel.

He was good with medicine and created a foundation. That doesn't mean that he's all of a sudden the father of medicine. Of course people required the foundation but that alone isn't enough

Imhotep designed the Pyramid of Pharoah Djzosèr, the (Step Pyramid). He wasnt just a "healer".

Originally posted by Fishy
Why?

There is a huge difference between a wheel and a car, although the car requires the wheel.

He was good with medicine and created a foundation. That doesn't mean that he's all of a sudden the father of medicine. Of course people required the foundation but that alone isn't enough

Actually you were right forget about this....

Originally posted by Penelope
Imhotep designed the Pyramid of Pharoah Djzosèr, the (Step Pyramid). He wasnt just a "healer".

No, he's also a Mummy that carries the 10 plagues of Egypt with him

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Originally posted by Tangible God
If you already knew the one and only answer, why did you make a thread asking everybody?

To enlightened those who did not know, and from what I see some people did not know.

Originally posted by Fishy
Somebody being first doesn't make him the most important person. You would hardly call the inventor of the wheel the inventor of cars would you?

No I would not, the car is a different invention all together, but with out the wheels what would be the purpose of the car. The car being made is just progress of what the the chariot or horse and carriage was, minus the horses. Both of those vehicles required the wheel to function as well.
There is a cause and effect to everything with out the cause how could there be an effect?

This question has always confused me. There's no doubt that Imhotep (who was elevated to god status after his death. this is one reason the greeks called him by the name for their god of healing, even though Asclepius, himself, was never a real man.) predated many of the more commonly recognized "fathers of medicine", but how is it that medicine was "founded" anywhere or by any one man?

The differences in medicine and medical procedure are as varied as the number of civlizations that practiced them. And in other cases, we've seen that the same procedure is used in many different cultures because it's the common sense way to do it.

Ophicius