How did life in Egypt affect medicine?
- Religion
[helped increase medical knowledge, they believed in life after death so bodies were embalmed for afterlife, some internal organs were taken out and preserved]
- Trade
[they had widespread trade links, ships and merchants arrived from India, China and parts of Africa bringing new herbs with them. They built a wide knowledge of herbal medicine because of this.]
- The Nile and Farming
[the doctors thought more about illnesses, got their ideas from the River Nile, River Nile was important to the health of their farmland. Doctors started thinking about different channels in the body that could become blocked because of the River Nile]
- Improved Writing
[developed 'Paryrus' quicker way of writing, doctors benifited as treatments and remedies could be written down and passed on]
- Wealth
[River Nile was the start of Egypts wealth, river flooded each year covering the surrounding land with fertile soil which helped with growing crops, successful so the landowners became rich, wealthy people created a demand for skilled doctors and then hired them and payed them therefore doctors were motivated to learn more things]
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