Anyone who visits the city of Helwan in Cairo, finds himself in front of a panel carrying many contradictions.
It is the residence of the pashas and the rich, as well as the accommodation of employees, workers of factories and companies.
You find the perfect healthy atmosphere due to its distinct geographical location.
It also has the highest rate of respiratory and thoracic diseases due to the emission of cement, quarry and marble factories.
In childhood, our relationship with Helwan was school trips to the garden of "Ali Baba and 40th Harami" and also the trips to heal the sulfur water in the Helwan Bridge next to the pelvis hospital that treat all skin patients in Egypt.
From Helwan, we monitor the story of a place, which is the basin Marsoudao Basin enchanted, which has been transformed from the name of the place to treat diseases of love and later it turned to a hospital treating skin diseases.
The basin, as stated in the book Description of Egypt - written by French campaign scientists, is a pharaonic sarcophagus of black granite, one of the Mamluks niches placed in front of the mosque ‘Aljawili’ in Sayeda Zeinab district, Cairo and used by the people who were in need of water.
There were strong rumors that those who used the water of this basin will cure diseases of love and separation, in the sense of the enchanted pelvis.
The French campaign scientists stole the sarcophagus to Paris during their exodus from Egypt in 1801, with rashid stone and many other artifacts.
After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, England took these relics and placed them in the British Museum in London. But in Cairo, only the name of the hospital, which was established in the same old place remained.
Contributed by Ahmed Yasser
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