What Are The Ancient Egyptian Medical Problems

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Ancient Egypt was a captivating and intricate civilization. Over the years, historians have found it easier to study this civilization, rather than other historical civilizations, because the Egyptians went through great lengths to record their history. Besides being decent record keepers, they were very religious, and “ahead of their time,” due to their technological and economic breakthroughs. Because of the aspects of this culture, it has to be one of the greatest civilizations of the world.

While Greek Medicine particularly from the 5th century B.C onwards, increasingly used scientific method to develop cures, there still however remained people that considered medicine to be a religion. The ancient Greeks (Hellenic) made important discoveries about the human body and health, so by the sixth century BC, medicinal practices focused largely on a more clinical approach involving observation. Their discoveries were made by firstly studying the human anatomy using dissection and vivisection, finding ways to heal using things such as plants and herbs, then finally practising surgery on the human body using different instruments.

Egyptians made advances in the field of medicine, the aspect of magic never their medicine.

Egyptians and Mesopotamians had the greatest advances in medicine during the ancient, but Egyptians were better at medicine than Mesopotamians. While we know that Mesopotamians astronomers had a very high reputation, Egyptians had a wide reputation when it came to their doctors. Egyptian doctors are in high demand, and some kings even had Egyptian doctors working for them. Egyptians had cure for constipation, and had an understanding of how to deal with infected cuts. They used methods such as using moldy bread, which we know is good, because mold is able to kill of some forms of bacteria.

The historical film called, “Where Did It Come From? Ancient Egypt: Modern Medicine” was produced by Melody Shafir and distributed through the History Channel. Unfortunately, I have not heard of Melody Shafir. Although, I do watch the History Channel often. There is not any reason that the History Channel would provide inaccurate information. They use various professionals’ such as doctors to scientists to conduct experiments or to provide information. Additionally, each professionals’ experience is talked about and credited on the film. The film has a copyrighted date of 2006, so the information provided is about 10 years old. I do not believe that the information is that outdated, because artifacts are studied with 21st century technology

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It is interesting fact that medicine consisted largely on the use of herbs and roots. In many cases, shamans, priests and medicine men used these plants ritually as magical substances. In the prehistoric societies in Africa they believed in both natural as well as supernatural means of variable causing as well as treating diseases. The plant materials such as herbs and substances that were derived from the natural sources acted as the treatment for diseases in these prehistoric cultures.

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Though the Greeks’ medicinal practices now seem highly superstitious and primitive, their desire and effort put towards discovering the cause of disease and working toward curing or preventing disease are worthy of respect and admiration. With a great amount of observance and, what they believed to be, a logical line of thinking, the Greeks offered those working in medicine an explanation of why diseases occurred, the effects these diseases had, how they could be countered, and even the regions they were most likely to claim victims. During the time the Hippocratic corpus was written, the Greeks did not believe there was anything divine about disease; no gods threw waves of illness at their people in fits of anger or in punishment like many cultures before and after believed. The seasons, water, air, and regions were the reason for disease and directly affected which illnesses were most common and the probability of catching a disease. This line of thinking

Egyptian daily living was mostly made up of philosophies, their fear of the gods and magic. They believed that people who acquired any type of physical and mental illnesses were somewhat caused by paranormal forces and that magic and their religious conviction were how they learned to live with them and treat people. Based on our assigned readings it seemed that Egyptian physician specialty revolved around their ability to be able to apply first aid techniques such as displaced joints and repairing of broken bones. They were able to take care of superficial wounds on the surface of the skin. However they lacked the ability to be able to perform deep level procedures. Their wound dressing was remarkable. A popular natural remedy they often used was willow leaves. Applying them to the skin helped to keep down inflammation. If there was a sickness that the Egyptians thought had some chance of healing they would first make observation and then decide when was the time they should get involved if it was at all required. One disease we can identify that existed at

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The ancient Egyptians utilized many basic methods of science and technology over the course of their culture’s era. You can find examples of these marvels in practically any aspect of their workings. From architecture to agriculture, medicinal practices and time keeping, one thing is for sure, they set a tone for the progression of technology over the centuries. Without these basic beginnings, we would not have what we have today.

However, it was the Ancient Egyptians that put modern day Egypt on track to be the successful country it is. With the work of archeologists we have learned just how far the people of ancient Egypt have affected our