Ancient Egypt 2
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- Created on: 12-03-13 18:36
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- Ancient Egypt
- Factors affecting medicine
- Money - poor and rich
- Trade - new herbs
- Writing - records kept
- Papyrus - kind of paper made from reeds - hieroglyophics
- The Nile - channels led to the Theory of the Four Humours
- Religion - aftlerlife and mummification
- Do it to preserve bodies
- Supernatural
- Caused by God or Evil Spirits
- Mummification - life after death
- Natural
- Treating broken nose
- Anatomy
- Good knowledge due to embalming
- Dissection not allowed as body needed for afterlife - only basic knowledge.
- Keywords
- Bloodletting - release blood to cure
- Laxatives - medicine makes people empty bowels
- Papyrus - early paper made from plant
- Hieroglyphics - form of writing using picture symbols
- Mummification - ancient way of preserving body
- Embalmers - men who treated dead bodies to preserve body
- Factors affecting medicine
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