Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Egyptian Medicine (3000BC-400BC)
- Life Expectancy
- Men - 40
- Women - 38
- Key Methods
- Trepanning
- First embalmment practices
- Irrigation of fields
- Malachite could prevent eye infections
- Consuming skinned mice to get better!
- Key Beliefs
- Afterlife (therefore dissection was forbidden)
- Dual Approach
- Omnitheism
- Imphotep (god of healing)
- Ra (sun god)
- Evidence
- Papyrus records in hieroglyphics
- Metal Surgical Instruments
- Tombs
- Trade with other countries
- Medical Problems
- Believed in evil spirits
- The poor couldn't afford doctors so were treated by family
- Dissection was illegal
- Charms were used