The first operation to remove a brain tumour was carried out 3,200 years ago in Egypt.

Many nations today pay tribute to their progress in medicine. Some of them claim that they are the origin of medicine in the world, such as the Chinese and Greeks, the descendants of the Greeks, while the Egyptians remain silent, not knowing that their ancestors were the first to discover medicine, but rather that they performed precise surgeries that the modern world did not know until recently. ..
The ancient Egyptians were the first to know medicine more precisely; they were the “father of medicine” and not the Greek Hippocrates. Before Hippocrates, the Egyptians performed the most dangerous and most accurate surgical operations. They were helped in that science and progress because of the ancient Egyptian belief represented in shrouding and embalming the dead, which requires opening the body and exhuming, what it contains, which helped doctors and priests to know the internal details of the body and the location of each member within the body.
This came in addition to other sciences that helped the ancient Egyptian doctors in medicine, such as the science of chemistry, in which the ancient Egyptian excelled. From it, they discovered anaesthetics and produced other substances. This helped the ancient Egyptians in the sciences of medicine, anatomy and surgery, and treatment with medicine.

Anaesthesia and acupuncture before the Chinese

The ancient Egyptians knew anaesthesia through acupuncture, which is known as Chinese needles, and they used it in conducting delicate operations such as brain tumours and others. In the twentieth century, the Egyptians knew it for thousands of years and treated their patients with it.
Also, the ancient Egyptian doctors invented the anaesthetic, and they made it from marble stone powder with the addition of vinegar. With precise operations in the eye, he found a mummy with an artificial eye that looks exactly like the real eye.

Minor surgeries

Also, the Egyptians were the first to use alternative medicine and herbal medicine before China itself, which was the pioneer of this science long ago. The Egyptian doctor used non-chemical materials in the treatment, such as the treatment of baldness, which was treated with head fat with a mixture of duck fat, crocodile fat and snake fat, which we find Now in many formulations of creams and medicines that combat baldness or hair loss, and also used herbs, for example, they used anise in the treatment of stomach and digestive disorders. They used the ring for general strengthening and for women who were newly developed in the case of jets and knew the benefits of hibiscus and that it was used as a repellent for worms in children. Strangely enough, they knew Treating wrinkles and using carrots to treat them, so we find pictures of the Egyptians on the tombs; even if he is old, the face is bright and radiant with vitality and activity.

Medicinal formulations for the Egyptians

The Egyptians knew whether a woman would give birth if she married or not. What was even more amazing was that they knew before marriage whether she would give birth or whether she would be barren through watermelon juice, which is placed on the milk of a woman who has given birth to a boy and is eaten by the girl or woman who wants to know that she will give birth or not. After eating this mixture, the lady threw it for she will give birth, and if her stomach is swollen, she will not give birth (except, God willing).
The ancient Egyptian doctor also knew the type of the fetus in its early days while it was in its mother’s womb, male or female, and this is what science has recently reached. However, scholars of this era also do not know the newborn male or female until after the fetus was created in the mother’s womb, i.e. in the fourth month of pregnancy. The Egyptian doctor knows the gender of the fetus by putting barley and wheat grains in the urine of the pregnant woman.
The Egyptians were also the first to know the books of medicine and prescriptions, and that is from what the papyri that reached us mentioned and diagnoses for every disease the medicine needed for it, such as the Ebers Papyrus, which diagnoses many diseases and describes the medicine, including:

Treatment of constipation: using an oil called Castor, which beavers produce.
And types of worms: treating head pain and stomach ulcers
Garlic gives activity and vitality, helps in digestion, a gentle laxative.
Fenugreek plant: In the event of chest problems, “inflammation”.
– Acacia gum: a laxative – treatment of skin diseases.
– Mint: refreshing and prevents cases of vomiting, and other papyri
Egyptian doctors and priests were the first to know and use injections, and priests and doctors invented the machine to enter fluids into the body’s arteries to be embalmed. The injections were known and used in treatment and medication for patients as a quick way to enter the treatment into the body and absorb as much of it as possible from the body.

Also, the Egyptians were the first to know cupping therapy before the Arabs, who also reached them through merchants who came to Egypt to buy its products that covered all parts of the ancient world. Egyptian doctors were the first to know about cautery treatment. This was mentioned in the London Papyrus dating back to 1300 BC, which mentioned cauterization processes and how they were occurring and classified diseases in which cauterization is appropriate rheumatism, arthritis, and others. The papyrus also includes in its content treatment with magical spells, and it is known that the Egyptians excelled in the world of magic.
Just as the Egyptian doctors knew and treated diabetes, they used to detect the disease by looking at the patient’s stomach, and if it had atrophy and wrinkles, he had diabetes.