#peseshet

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Peseshet 

In the period known as the “Old Kingdom” in Ancient Egypt, from 2600-2100 BC, all professions were open to men and women, including the clergy, business, and medicine. In fact, records show that there were more than 100 prominent female physicians in Ancient Egypt, with Peseshet as their director. She was known as “lady overseer of the female physicians” – although it is not established that Lady Peseshet was a doctor herself and even if she was she was not the first known female physician. That title goes to someone who practiced medicine almost 100 years earlier: the world’s first known female doctor was Merit-Ptah(2700 BC).

Peseshet, la plus ancienne femme-médecin connue

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For decades, an ancient Egyptian known as Merit Ptah has been celebrated as the first female physician and a role model for women entering medicine. Yet a researcher now says she never existed and is an example of how misconceptions can spread.

This is more historiography than anything else, but it is fascinating nonetheless. Peseshet is the Old Kingdom female doctor, but some don’t believe her title of Overseer of Female Doctors was real. I disagree. And for what it’s worth, this photo is of a 19th Dynasty woman, far removed from the Old Kingdom.

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PESESHET // PHYSICIAN

“She is often credited with being the earliest known female physician in history. Some have credited Merit-Ptah with being the first female physician, but she is likely a fictional creation based upon Peseshet. Peseshet’s relevant title was "lady overseer of the female physicians," but whether she was a physician herself is uncertain. She also had the titles king's acquaintance, and overseer of funerary-priests of the king's mother.”

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Peseshet - Wikipedia

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Peseshet, que vivió durante la Dinastía IV, se considera a menudo, como la primera médica conocida del Antiguo Egipto. Pero no es así, anteriormente a ella vivió Merit Ptah. Peseshet tenía el título, según el modelo de la administración real, de "supervisora (o superintendente) de las médicas sin embargo, aunque es lo más probable, no se sabe a ciencia cierta, si ella misma fue médica.

En la mastaba de su hijo (otras versiones hablan de marido), Ajethetep (o Ajethotep), en Guiza, se encontró la estela de Peseshet. Tenía otros títulos como el de "superintendente de las sacerdotisas de la madre del rey" o "directora de las sacerdotisas", que eran elegidas para los ritos de los funerales.

Es probable que se hubiese graduado como matrona en la antigua escuela médica de Sais. A pesar de no haberse encontrado ningún término en el Antiguo Egipto que se refiera a la obstetricia, tendría que haber existido, por fuerza. Curiosamente, la Biblia hebrea, aunque no se considere una fuente totalmente fiable de los acontecimientos históricos anteriores al siglo VII a. C., se refiere a las parteras en el Éxodo 1,15-16:

"El rey de Egipto dio también orden a las parteras de las hebreas: Cuando asistáis a las hebreas, observad bien las dos piedras ..."