Ancient Egyptian Medicine
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- Created on: 07-05-14 14:17
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- Ancient Egyptian Medicine
- Egyptian Civilisation
- Doctors and Priests overlapped or did very similar things
- The Nile and better transport meant better means of communication so ideas spread
- They had a form of writing so ideas could be recorded and passed down
- Different Gods controlled different things
- E.g. Illness and Medicine
- Amulets, charms and rituals were used to avoid illness
- Created first natural theory of illness based off of the River Nile
- Said the body had channels like the Nile and if these channels were blocked you became ill
- Drugs such as opium were used-this is still used today
- Practical Medicine
- Believed that the body would be needed in the afterlife so they preserved bodies via mummification
- Also though material possession were needed so people were buried with their belongings
- During mummification organs were extracted so it improved knowledge of the human body
- They did not allow dissection so a lot of knowledge of the body was not gained
- To unblock the 'blocked' channels in the body purging, vomiting and bleeding were used
- some medical procedures included recommended foods, showing diet was important
- Egyptians valued cleanliness, they bathed and changed clothes regularly
- Some Egyptian toilets were found although it had to be emptied manually
- Believed that the body would be needed in the afterlife so they preserved bodies via mummification
- Egyptian Civilisation
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