ANCIENT EGYPT: The knowledge which we have is from a parchament known as the '
Edwin Smith Papyrus'. Edwin Smith had only purcahased it from a robber who got it from one of the many tombs. The
author of the payrus was probably
Imhotep. He is considered a genius of those times. Definitly
splints were used in those days and crutches have been found upon mummies. In additio Imhotep has described a large amont of his thinking on Cardiovascular diseaes.