Editing Imhotep (section)

===Medicine===
[[Egyptologist]] [[James Peter Allen]] states that "The Greeks equated him with their own god of medicine, [[Asklepios]], although ironically, there is no evidence that Imhotep himself was a physician."<ref name="Allen">{{cite book |last=Allen |first=James Peter |year=2005 |title=The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300107289 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNbVl5LOjHUC&q=+Imhotep |access-date=August 17, 2016}}</ref>

In his Pulitzer-prize winning “biography” of cancer – ''[[The Emperor of All Maladies]]'' – [[Siddhartha Mukherjee]] cites the oldest identified written diagnosis of cancer to Imhotep.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mukherjee |first=Siddhartha |title=The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer |publisher=Fourth Estate Ltd; First Edition |date=29 September 2011 |isbn=9780007250929}}</ref> Unfortunately, the therapy Imhotep laconically prescribed for it would be equally recognizable for millennia: “There is none”.