Egyptian Medicine
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- Created on: 26-04-14 13:17
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- Egyptian Medicine
- Who treated the sick?
- Master physicians - nearest to a doctor
- Pharaoh's doctors - specialists
- Priest Magicians - Used spirits to fight disease
- Religious roles - gods eg. Sekhmet
- Women - herbal remedies
- Treatments
- Magical charms and chanting
- External surgery
- Herbal remedies and ointments to heal infections
- Cleanliness eg. circumcision
- Fasting to prevent blocked channels
- Animal fats etc.
- The Body
- Knew of organs but not how they worked etc.
- Most important organ was the heart
- Believed arteries of 'channels' carried blood, air and water because of the river Nile's channels
- Causes of disease
- Food rotting in your bowels - blocking your channels
- Channels were most important in this time
- "May your channels be sound"
- Embalming
- Organs are removed and the body is preserved with spicies
- Therefore they learned a little about anatomy but had to work quickly to prevent rotting
- Limited knowledge as dissection was forbidden
- Who treated the sick?
- "May your channels be sound"
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