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How Did Egypt Medicine Influence The Modern World

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Dylan Menzie 02/16/2024 How Egypt Influenced Modern Medicine Thesis statement: Egyptian medicine influenced the modern world in many ways. Ancient Egypt used a lot of medicines in their time and they influenced the modern world, The medicine that they used helped people heal, have less pain etc, when they used these medicines for people it was straightforward, for example, they used onions and honey to cure infections for people, and it helped people for a long time when ancient Egypt was still a thing. When the medicine was used it helped, and it was the elementary medicines that helped the most people. Some of the people who used these medicines in ancient Egypt were doctors and priests, they used these medicines to help/heal people in ancient Egypt, the doctors would use the medicines during battle or when someone needed help, and the pharaoh would usually have a doctor on standby if/when he got sick and needed some medicine to help them feel better. Some of the doctors in battle carried medicine on them in case some of the soldiers in battle got injured and needed help, the medics would come out to battle with the soldiers in case they needed to, but if they did not need help on the battlefield they stay back to help the wounded soldiers. …show more content…

So the priests used medicine to counter it, some of the medicines that they used were cumin, fennel, caraway, castor, aloe, safflower and glue. They used these to counter the evil so everyone in Egypt did not have to worry about the dark side getting to them. They also used medicine to counter curses, they would use medicine and the Bible to get rid of them. So in the modern world people use different medicines to counter different things, this is helpful because people don't want an “evil god” or “curses” haunting

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