Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Egyptians Medicine
- The river Nile
- Every year Nile would flood and fertilize the fields
- Provided water for irrigation
- Doctors got ideas from Nile (channels)
- Barges on Nile enabled fairly swift transportation of herbs and
plants (for medicine) from India, China and parts of Africa
- Improved writing
- Ideas could be recorded and communicated better
- Papyrus= paper made from reeds
- Had a lot of time to read and write
- Priests kept 'Books of Thoth': contained treatments and spells
- How did they think disease was caused?
- Channels in body which carried blood, air and water- these could get blocked
- Rotting (undigested) food in bowels would give
off gases which would seep around body
- Who treated the sick?
- Master physicians
- Priests (magicians)
- Why did they know about the body?
- Heart, pulse, liver, brain, lungs and blood
- Did not understand proper roles of these parts
- How did religion limit medicine?
- Believed destroying someone's body meant they wouldn't go into afterlife