{"id":39982,"date":"2012-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2012\/02\/28\/ancient-egyptian-medical-facts\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T06:00:00","slug":"ancient-egyptian-medical-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2012\/02\/28\/ancient-egyptian-medical-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Egyptian medical facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>In advance of a March 7 campus presentation about the Joslyn Museum&#8217;s current exhibit on ancient Egypt, below is a fact about medicine in the &#8220;birthplace of civilization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><HR><\/p>\n<p>Egyptian doctors were known to have identified and documented hundreds of different illnesses. 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