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Ancient Egypt Flashcards

(23 cards)

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Ptolemaic Period

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323-30 BCE

Greece took over ancient Egypt

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Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom

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1550-1080 BCE

a lot of papyri from this period

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Egyptian sources of Information

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  • artistic interpretations
  • instruments
  • paleopathology: dead bodies
  • references in historical, social and literary records
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metu

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a networked body

  • networks of tubes throughout body: 22-52 paths
  • carry bodily fluids or malignant spirits
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key points in the body

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heart= seed of intelligence and emotion
anus= believed that the corruption of the body was caused by bad food or bad digestion
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putrefication

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poisoning of the body through bad digestion or bad food

- importance of emetics and enemas because they expell this corruption

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thoth

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deity of healing and science

- self created deity that was made from chaos and order

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Sekhmet

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goddess of disease

  • angry goddess that will ravage body with disease
  • sacrifice things for her to prevent disease
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selquet

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goddess of scorpions

  • scorpions were common and had to deal with them
  • believed in god in hope of prevention
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isis

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goddess of magic and women

  • associated with childbirth and motherhood
  • mother of horus (divine physician)
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horus

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divine physician

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Imhotep and Amenhotep

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divine doctors

  • 27th century BCE
  • becomes healing saint after proving their divination, not gods
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swnw

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Egyptian word for physician

- Hesy Ra= 2600 BCE

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Merit Ptah

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  • female physician in Ancient Egypt

- 2700 BCE

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Peseshet of the Old Kingdom

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possible female overseer of physicians or just specifically female physicians

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midwives and nurses in Egypt

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  • used for aid during childbirth
  • very prevalent throughout society because doctors rarely aided in childbirth
  • families looked to women in family to care for sick or elders
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surgery in Egypt

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  • doctors would learn about the inside of the human body by reading documents from embalmers
  • surgery was not done bc too risky, infection, hemorrhaging, and anesthesia
  • learned from embalmers the benefits of bandages
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Tebeketenmut Toe

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  • prosthetic toe made for a priest’s daughter
  • made out of leather and wood, tested in Manchester for functionality
  • may have had diabetes which led to toe being amputated
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Kahun Gynecological Papyrus

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  • found in the late 19th century, religious style script
  • basic instructions to treat disorders
  • many believed that any issue with a woman could be attributed to her uterus travelling around her body
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Edwin Smith Papyrus

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  • 1650-1550 BCE
  • trauma treatis
  • the writing of this tracks three different people
    Author (2600-2200 BCE), Commentator, Scribe
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Shesau manuals

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writing in the form of an instruction manual

  • how to diagnose a patient, what is wrong with them
  • prognosis, whether or not a patient will recover
  • how you as a doctor will treat the patients
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Pekhret

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recipes without instruction

  • just lists of recipes
  • no examination or prognosis
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Ebers or Smith Papyrus

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  • 1534 BCE
  • longest medical papyrus
  • medical/ scientific papyrus on one side with incantations and magical approaches on the other side