The Medical influences of Ancient Near East on Greek 323B.C -A Historical and Civilization Study

Abstract

Medical Science is a part of human knowledge. It emerged since the beginning of the creation of man, and from the accumulation of human knowledge through the historical ages. It is linked to Life and civilization   it links to life and civilization.  It arose through its establishment, and the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century witnessed intellectual trends in which the European man claimed cultural hegemony and glorified the Greek Civilization as the source of all sciences.  Although the reality shows that the Civilization of the East was the oldest and thus had a Leader in the various medical, legal, and engineering field that would be covered in subsequent studies.

Where inscriptions, Papyri, and medical tools had found in the Ancient Near East regions illustrate the full knowledge of the internal and external organs of the body, thus giving an image of the practice of medicine widely in the Near East regions before Greek.        

  Many researchers also thought that the medical symbols including the scepter of wisdom, invented by Greek, while we had found it among the Babylonians in Ancient Mesopotamia. 

Through this research, it is clear that Greek had taken From Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Syria, many medical sciences, as the various medical specialties found in Egypt and were written in Papyrus, the Greeks learned from them.