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Egyptians Medicine
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AS Level GCSE Stuff Mind Map on Egyptians Medicine, created by hollyweber on 20/10/2013.
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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
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