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Babylon
However, Medicine as a science was practiced almost 1500 years prior to Plato, in the ancient Mesopotamian empire of Babylon on and around 1800 BCE, after Hammurabi transformed a rather pocket of a rural colony of workers namely Babel into one of the major Multinational businesses, and trade center city. Babylon was also the first empire, where medicine schools were opened, and investigative medicine was started. Babylon was the first place where the chaotic world was transformed into law by codification. Hammurabi’s Code is recognized as the first and most well-structured state law.
Medicine reached Egypt from Babylon. Imanhetop is considered as Egyptian father of medicine. Thereafter in the 12th Century BCE, during the time Ramses III, arguably one of the greatest Egyptian pharao, who lived past 90 years, when the average age of Egypt used to be around 30, took the medicine to the next level. Ramses III made girls’ education mandatory, and they were taught extensively the art of healing. In fact, Nursing got prospered in Egypt and Babylon.
Babylon+India
Babylon and Indian Harappa and Mohenjodaro shared trade and cultural relationships long back in and around 3000 BCE. Furthermore, Harappans had a genetic admixture of northern Siberians. Therefore in Babylon, medicine was not only flowers and leaves, but they mastered the art of surgery too. When Samskrit became a prominent Indian language in and around 1500 BCE, Sushruta composed the first treatise for surgery, known as Sushruta Samhita.