ANCIENT EGYPT

ANCIENT EGYPT

BACKGROUND INFO
1. MORE TRADE AND COMMUNICATION
  1. THIS MEANT SHIPS IMPORTED MORE HERBS AND PLANTS
    1. THESE COULD THEN BE USED FOR MEDICINE
2. THE EGYPTIANS HAD WRITING
  1. IDEAS COULD BE RECORDED AND COMMUNICATED BETTER THEN PREVIOUSLY
NATURAL BELIEFS AND TREATMENTS
1. LIEK THE RIVER NILE, THE BODY HAD CHANNELS
  1. WHEN THEY WERE BLOCKED THIS IS WHY YOU BECAME ILL
    1. THEY USED PURGING, VOMITING AND BLOOD LETTING TO UNBLOCK THESE
2. THESE IDEAS WERENT ACCEPTED BY ALL
  1. PEOPLE WHO DID BELIEVE THEM DIDNT ABANDON SPIRITUAL TREATMENTS
3. THEY ALSO KNEW DIET WAS IMPORTANT
  1. MEDICAL PRECIDURES INCLUDED FOOD
SUPERNATURAL BELIEFS AND TREATMENTS
1. THEY BELIEVED GODS CAUSED AND CURED DISEASE
2. PRIESTS HAD BOOKS CONTAINING THE ACCEPTED CURES FOR THE PATIENT
3. SOME DRUGS WERE USED LIKE OPIUM
  1. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN USED TO WARD OFF EVIL SPIRITS
MUMMIFICATION OF DEAD BODIES
1. THEY BELIEVED THE BODY WAS NEEDED IN THE AFTERLIFE
  1. THEY EXTRACTED SOFT ORGANS LIKE THE BRAIN AND THE INTESTINES
  2. THI MEANT DESTROYING SOMEONES BODY MEANT THEY COULDNT GO TO THE AFTERLIFE
    1. THIS MEANT DISSECTION WAS FORBIDDEN
OBSERVATIONS AND WRITINGS
1. EGYPTIANS WERE THE FIRST TO HAVE DOCTORS
  1. THEY DIAGNOSED THEIR PATIENTS AND OBSERVED THEIR SYMPTOMS
HYGIENE
1. CLEANLINESS WAS VALUED
  1. THEY BATHED, SHAVED HEADS AND USD TOILETS
2. THEY ALSO CHANGED THEIR CLOTHES REGULARLY

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