Japanese Flashcards
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Q
(7) Explain how factors outside medicine helped the Egyptians make progress in
medicine.
A
Farming was very important in Egypt. To make sure the fields
had water the farmers built irrigation channels to the fields. These gave
the Egyptians that the body might work in the same way. The channels in
the body might be taking life to the rest of the body through the blood. If
these channels got blocked a person would be ill just like if the irrigation
channels got blocked the crops in the fields would die.
Religion was also very important in Egypt. They believed that souls use their human body in the afterlife. This compelled them to extract the soft organs and dry what remained with salt in preparation. This gave them some knowledge of anatomy
