Hesy-Ra

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Hesy-Ra was an official physician and scribe who lived during the Third dynasty of Egypt, served under the pharaoh Djoser, and was laid in an elaborate tomb at Saqqara. He bore titles such as "Chief of Dentists and Physicians" and "Chief of the King's Scribes."

Hesy-ra appears to have been renowned for skill as a dentist and recognized diabetes and polyuria.


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