History of Psoriasis
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چکیده
According to Herodotus in the pharaonic Egypt there were physicians for every organ. Numerous medicaments were used, along with magical ceremonies and enchantments (Herodotus, 1989). Hovewer, nothing relate to psoriasis in their medical papyruses. In the largest writing, the Ebers papyrus written about the 15th century BC, found in 1873 in Luxor, numerous skin diseases were described (paragraph 90-95 and 104-118). The term šuf. t for scale was find, but it was impossible to recognize psoriasis (Ebbel, 1937).
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