Explained: Merit Ptah — said to be the first woman physician. Was she?

Kwiecinski found that Ptah was first mentioned in the 1930s, when Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, a medical historian, wrote a history of women in medicine. Her book mentioned a picture of a woman named Merit Ptah on the site where a tomb in the Valley of Kings was excavated.

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