Remaining manuscripts of ancient Egyptian doctors: In ancient Egypt in the 26th century BC, there was a doctor named tián in Zuosai, who was the Pharaoh of the third dynasty. He established the first medical school in history, treated more than 200 diseases, and was regarded as a god after his death.
Edwin Smith's papyrus manuscript, presumably left by India and Khotan. Time flies, this ancient papyrus paper gives us a glimpse of the story in that mysterious pyramid kingdom. The manuscript recorded 48 cases, and made anatomical description, diagnosis, summary and prognosis for each case.
Among them, the 45th case is a description of breast cancer. He compared the lump to a fruit, which was hard and cold and spread under the skin, but the record of treatment was "no treatment".
Athosha, Queen of Persia: Herodotus, an ancient Greek historian, is known as the "father of historiography" in the West. This book records a Persian princess and later queen named Athosha.
She lived in 500 BC, equivalent to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China. It is said that the transcendent queen is suspected of having breast cancer. At first, like many people, she was ashamed to talk about such things. Later, when her condition deteriorated, the queen called the then physician for treatment. Persuaded by the doctor, she underwent a primitive mastectomy.
Mummy anatomy: As we all know, the unique customs of ancient Egypt left a large number of mummies for later generations. These mummies have made outstanding contributions to the study of paleopathology. Through the study of these mummies, we can understand some diseases that really existed in that era through the fog of thousands of years of history.
By dissecting the mummy of a 35-year-old woman, Aufderheide found that she had osteosarcoma before her death, and her left arm had a lump covered with bone needles.
Portuguese scientists found that a male mummy 2,500 years ago had prostate cancer, and there was a high-density tumor between his lumbar spine and pelvis.
Researchers at the University of Granada, Spain, found 1 female breast cancer patients and 1 male bone marrow cancer patients when they scanned the mummies. There are many discoveries like this, and such research proves that cancer is an ancient disease.
China's record:
During the Shang Dynasty, there was a record of female breast cancer in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which was "the mountain is high and the valley is deep".
In Huangdi Neijing, there is a record of preventing cancer. "If the tumor attacks it, it will be scattered and can be led down." The "intestine" mentioned in the book. "Stone" and "accumulation" refer to tumor.
In Song Dynasty, Dong Xuan lay man used the name "cancer" for the first time in Bao Shu, Wei Ji.
"Ren Zhai's theory of pointing to the appendix" wrote that "cancer patients are tall and deep, cave-shaped, drooping ... The poison roots are deep and penetrate the points, and men mostly occur in the abdomen, and women mostly occur in the breasts, or neck or shoulders or arms. External syndrome coma. " Firstly, the characteristics of cancer are expounded.
Throughout the historical torrent, cancer has been accompanied by the reproduction of this human being from ancient times to the present. The struggle against this demon has never stopped. Cancer has now become one of the top ten diseases that plague human beings, but the face of the devil has also begun to become clear. Generation after generation of research breakthroughs, one day, human beings can overcome diseases!
-Source "The King of Disease: The Biography of Cancer" [America] Siddhartha Mukherjee