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The Ebers papyrus, one of the most important medical papyri of ancient Egypt, briefly mentioned clinical depression. [1] A page from the Ebers Papyrus. 6th century BCE. 600 B.C., many cities had temples to Asklepios known as an Asklepieion that provided cures for psychosomatic illnesses [2] 4th century BCE
Regarding posthumous diagnoses: only a few famous people are believed to have been affected by schizophrenia. Most of these listed have been diagnosed based on evidence in their own writings and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them. Also, persons prior to the 20th century may have incomplete or speculative diagnoses of schizophrenia.
Mental illnesses were well known in ancient Mesopotamia, [6] where diseases and mental disorders were believed to be caused by specific deities. [7] Because hands symbolized control over a person, mental illnesses were known as "hands" of certain deities. [7] One psychological illness was known as Qāt Ištar, meaning "Hand of Ishtar". [7]
Famous People With Schizophrenia Zelda Fitzgerald. As the wife of The Great Gatsby writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and a talented writer and artist in her own right, Zelda Fitzgerald is best-known for ...
There has been an interpretation that brief notes in the Ancient Egyptian Ebers papyrus may imply schizophrenia, [9] but other reviews have not suggested any connection. [10] A review of ancient Greek and Roman literature indicated that although psychosis was described, there was no account of a condition meeting the criteria for schizophrenia ...
Ancient Egyptian singer-priestess in the inner sanctum at the temple in Karnak. Meresankh I: Queen: 3rd dynasty: fl. c. 27th century BC: Possibly a lesser wife of pharaoh Huni. Meresankh was the mother of the 4th dynasty pharaoh Sneferu. Meresankh II: Queen: 4th dynasty: fl. c. 26th century BC: Daughter of Khufu and Queen Meritites I.
Seneb was a high-ranking court official in the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, circa 2520 BC. A dwarf, Seneb was a person of considerable importance and wealth who owned thousands of cattle, held twenty palaces and religious titles and was married to a high-ranking priestess of average size with whom he had three children.
Merit-Ptah first appears in literature in a 1937 book by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead on female doctors. [10] Campbell Hurd-Mead presents two ancient Egyptian female doctors, an unnamed one dating to the Fifth Dynasty and Merit-Ptah, dating evidently to the New Kingdom as Hurd-Mead states that she is shown in the Valley of the Kings (the burial ground of Egyptian kings from about 1500 BCE to 1080 BCE).