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Egyptian medicine what changed |
Medical knowledge changed where people lived in cities and were richer Metal instruments were used in surgery New herbs were used as a result of trade There were doctors as well as medicine men Doctors looked for logical causes of disease |
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What stayed the same as prehistoric |
Herbs were still used as medicines People believed in gods and spirits People still did not understand how body worked Still didn't understand what caused disease |
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How did the Nile affect medicine |
Egyptian doctors began to think pf the body as having many channels like the nile and which if they became blocked could cause a person to become ill |
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What healers were in Egyptian time |
Master physicians Priest magicians Guardian of anus Physician of the belly Goddess of water Priest of sekhmet |
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How did RELIGION affect medicine |
Bodies were embalmed ready for the afterlife Parts of the body such as liver were taken and preserved covered in spices Egyptians believed in afterlife and needed body for afterlife |
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How did the improvement in writing affect medicine |
Egyptians developed papyrus which benefited doctors as treatments developments and remedies could be written down and passed on COMMUNICATION |
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What affect did wealth have a medicine |
The Rich employed doctors to look after them The pharaoh have his own physician River nile flooded land making it more fertile so more crops meaning more trade |
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How did specialist doctors and metal workers affect medicine |
Specialist doctors spent much of their lives trying to improve their understanding of medicine and health Metal workers made fine bronze instruments for doctors so better instruments |
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How did trade links affect medicine |
Egyptian widespread trade links with india china and parts if Africa meant countries recommend herbs and plants as medicines |
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Name three ways Egyptians treated illness and injury |
Bathing temples Purged themselves drink potion would make sick or give diarrhoea Cleanliness to prevent disease
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Egyptian believed gods what |
Caused and cured disease |
