Egyptian Medicine
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- Created on: 03-05-16 14:04
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- Ancient Egyptian Medicine
- Provided historians with a great deal of knowledge and evidence
- Evidence about their attitudes towards medicine
- Medical knowledge that they had
- Came from numerous papyrus's found in archaeological searches
- Beliefs based on myths and legends
- People believed that spiritual beings caused illness
- A god would also frighten away evil spirits
- Trephining was a way to get rid of spirits
- Knowledge was based on increasing knowledge of anatomy
- Also based on common sense
- Such as air was important and so was the heart
- They knew about the different organs
- Embalming gave them this knowledge
- Treatment of illness was now carried out by physicians and doctors
- Some of which were worshiped
- There were people who were eye specialists
- One was called guardian of the anus
- Channel theory
- River Nile
- Provided historians with a great deal of knowledge and evidence
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