Egyptians Medicine

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

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