Author: Kwadwo Fernand DOBAT-CHAULEAU
 Title: Black Africa, cradle of medicine and surgery
 Format: A4
 Pages: 122
 Price: $25 CAD

 Nearly 6,000 years ago, Pharaonic society and the state worked to systematically organize public health. From then on, sub-Saharan Africa during the Pharaonic period established centers of life, medical schools, clinics, and even the first dispensaries in human history, as well as the first treatises on medical specialties (cardiology, gynecology, ophthalmology, surgery, neurosurgery, etc.). Medicine held a very important place in ancient Egypt. Thus, well before Greek medicine, African medical science was renowned as far as the Near East. From there, many patients came for treatment, and students from the East migrated to receive instruction from the patricians, as did various scholars seeking to further their knowledge.

 It was a hierarchical profession, with physicians in the imperial palace and those in public health centers, known today as "dispensaries." Thus, in sub-Saharan Africa during the Pharaonic period, there were general practitioners, specialists in specific organs[1], and surgeons.

 It is this whole still little-known universe that Kwadwo Fernand DOBAT-CHAULEAU's work invites you to discover without further delay, in order to put universal history back in the right direction.