Egyptian Medecine Flashcards
(9 cards)
What is “change”
Is when medicine or something changes or is different through time
What is “continuity”
When something stays the same through time
What were the Egyptians one of the first people to do
The healers used papyrus for writing down cures and treatments to pass on their knowledge
Why was the writing in papyrus an important change
Because it shows how they changed the way they communicated and how that helped improve their studies
Who was Sekmeth
The goddess of war who Egyptian prayed to they thought she could take way illnesses and bring good health
What is the channel Theory
It’s when Egyptians thought that when the river nile blocked they thought that the same thing would happen to the body if it didn’t have the right amount of fluid throughout the body
What was mummification and embalming
It’s when if a person dies their organs would be taken out and stored the body would be put into a coffin and their body would be mummified
What did they help would happen for the person after mummification
They thought that it would take them to the afterlife
What did they do in surgery
They had bronze machinery to cut open people or to drag something for example to take out cysts from nose
