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	Ancient Egyptian Medicine - Smith Papyrus - Ebers Papyrus
		The use of Autopsy came through the extensive embalming practices of the Egyptians, as it was not unlikely for an embalmer to examine the body for a cause of the illness which killed it.
		The Egyptians thought that most illnesses - at least those caused by no obvious accident - were the work of hostile powers: 'an adversary male or female, a spirit or a dead person' and it was for this reason that magicians, as well as physicians were concerned with curing the ills of the populace.
		Ancient Egyptians knew little about the existence, for instance, of the kidneys and made the heart the meeting point of a number of vessels which carried all the fluids of the body (from blood, which is correct), to tears, urine and sperm (which is less so).
	www.crystalinks.com /egyptmedicine.html (3607 words)

	ancient Egyptian medicine
		The Egyptians were advanced medical practitioners for their time, they are credited with being the first to use and record advanced medical practices, they based their knowledge from careful and astute observations, as well as trial and error.
		The Egyptians had a basic knowledge of organ functions within the human body, except for the brain and heart which they thought had opposite functions, as it was not unlikely for an embalmer to examine the body for a cause of the illness which caused death.
		The practices of Egyptian medicine was acknowledged by both Hippocrates and Galan as having contributed in large part to their own information and knowledge from Egyptian works they had studied at the temple of Amenhotep in Memphis.
	www.aldokkan.com /science/medicine.htm (945 words)

	::Ancient Egyptian Medicine::
		The Ancient Egyptians, like the Ancient Greeks and Romans, have provided modern historians with a great deal of knowledge and evidence about their attitude towards medicine and the medical knowledge that they had.
		Ancient papyrus inform us that the Ancient Egyptians were discovering things about how the human body worked and they knew that the heart, pulse rates, blood and air were important to the workings of the human body.
		It is probable that this knowledge came as a result of the practice the Ancient Egyptians had of embalming dead bodies.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /ancient_egyptian_medicine.htm (977 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Medicine
		The Egyptians were very much a very civilized people considering the well being of their people a religious demand and not a luxurious commodity.
		The Ancient Egyptians have provided modern historians with a great deal of knowledge and evidence about their attitude towards medicine and the medical knowledge that they had.
		The Ancient Egyptians wrote down their knowledge and this is found on what is known as the Papyrus Ebers: The document actually gives names to organs such as the spleen, the heart, the anus, the lungs etc so they must have known that these exist.
	www.kingtutshop.com /freeinfo/Medicine1.htm (476 words)

	Medicine in Ancient Egypt
		The ancient Egyptians apparently knew that the sutures of children and adults are attached to each other by connective tissue and are not fully ossified.
		The Egyptians apparently were also aware of the connection be-tween the tonus of the pelvic floor and the position of the uterus.
		In order to comprehend the kind of knowledge of the ancient Egyptians and how it found its way into their art, it is necessary to try to understand the prevelant consciousness and perception in ancient Egypt.
	www.ancient-egypt.de /html/medicine_in_ancient_egypt.html (2082 words)

	Ancient Egypt: Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Egyptians explained them as the work of the gods, caused by the presence of evil spirits or their poisons, and cleansing the body was the way to rid the body of their influence.
		Not all of Egyptian medicine was based on wishful thinking [8] (moreover we should never disregard the effect faith can have on our health), much was the result of experimentation and observation.
		The common cold plagued the ancient Egyptians as it still does us today, and their remedy, the milk of a mother who has given birth to a boy, was probably as effective as anything we have got today [26].
	nefertiti.iwebland.com /timelines/topics/medicine.htm (6166 words)

	Medicine in Ancient Egypt 1
		Medicine in ancient Egypt was but one aspect of an advanced civilization.
		Some kind of medicine was already practiced in Egypt in the earliest prehistoric days, (the use of malachite as an eye paint in the Badarian age – around 4000 BC, and the same use of galena in predynastic times).
		He is also a Founder member and Member of Board of Directors of the Egyptian Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Founder of the Congenital Heart Division of the Alexandria Patients' Welfare Association for financing charity treatment for children with congenital heart dieases.
	www.arabworldbooks.com /articles8.htm (1449 words)

	Article Summary: Ancient Egyptian Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The concepts of celestial medicine in Ancient Egypt are explored with special emphasis on the ritualistic relationship between the signatures of body constitution, ailments and remedies and planetary agreement (law of similars).
		Ancient Egyptian medicine, like other aspects of Ancient Egyptian civilization, was a product of the intimate relationship between the heavens and earth.
		Medicine, like architecture, engineering, religion, calendars and agriculture, etc. was a system reflecting patterns and cycles of higher order in our solar system, and beyond.
	www.explorepub.com /articles/summaries/12_5_amin.html (389 words)

	Ancient Egyptian medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ancient Egyptian medicine refers to the common medical practices of Ancient Egypt in the period circa 3300 BC until the Persian invasion of 525 BC.
		The ancient Egyptians had highly advanced medical practices for their time, including surgery, setting of bones and an extensive set of pharmacopoeia.
		Hippocrates (the "father of medicine"), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine (1563 words)

	Sekhmet And The Art of Ancient Egyptian Medicine
		Although many of Ancient Kemet's physicians were products of their day, and they very much were aware of the power of magic, many a scientific mind was able to discern and observe practical clinical case studies and documented them extensively.
		The Ancient Kemetic dentists also were known to have used gold wire as a means to bind a loose tooth to a neighboring tooth that was sound, Another thing that the Ancient Kemetic dentists would be to fill them.
		Ancient Kemetic medicine was acknowledged by both Hippocrates and Galan as having contributed in large part to their own information and knowledge.
	showcase.netins.net /web/ankh/sekhmetnew.html (2935 words)

	Ancient Egypt Magazine
		In ancient Egypt, a clever pharaoh could earn kudos by dispatching one of his top medical specialists to help a neighbouring monarch, often having been requested to do so specifically, such was the reputation of the ancient medics.
		Visiting the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, in the Amarna room one could be forgiven for thinking that theories of extra-terrestrial influences on ancient Egypt might actually be based on fact.
		The ancient Egyptian physicians at their best show a logical and suprisingly up-to-date approach to the diagnosis, classification and treatment of disease.
	www.ancientegyptmagazine.com /medicine33.htm (1860 words)

	Egyptian Herbal Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Egyptians believed that disease and death were neither natural nor inevitable, but was caused by some malign influence which might use any agency, natural or invisible, and very often was part of the spirit world.
		Egyptian, along with other Mediterranean and Indian medicine was therefore strongly magico-religious even though there were many practical cures and remedies using herbs, minerals and various animal parts.
		Historically, hygiene (named after the ancient Greek goddess, Hygeia) has been one of the most decisive elements of health and with the ancient Egyptians, a high level of personal and social hygiene was attained.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/post/150484 (4744 words)

	Per-Ankh - Ancient Egyptian Medicine
		Ancient Egyptian medicine, it is important to note, is made up of what we would call rational treatments and magic.
		This is a modern division of ancient Egyptian medicine and certainly the ancient Egyptians themselves would not thought this way.
		The ancient Egyptians believed in the power of the sound of spoken words and that it had an effect upon the real world.
	www.per-ankh.co.uk /monuments/ancient_egyptian_medicine.asp (412 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Studies
		JOHN F. The skills of the ancient Egyptians in preserving bodies through mummification are well known, but less recognized is their expertise in the everyday medical practices needed to treat the living.
		In Ancient Egypt it is visible the Nile which flows between the eastern bank of the living and western bank of the dead.
		This is a book about how the ancient Egyptians in Africa attempted to order their lives, heal themselves, and live with their fellow humans in an integrated society of praise and honor to the supreme deity.
	www.headstartbooks.com /aegypt/anegypt.htm (1688 words)

	ANCIENT MEDICINE: MEDICINE IN ANCIENT EGYPT, GREECE & ROME.
		This paper provides a survey overview and analysis of medicine in three ancient civilizations: Egyptian, Greek, and Roman, with a primary focus on Egyptian medicine and a brief treatment of Greco-Roman medicine.
		The investigation begins with an overview of ancient Egyptian medicine, which arguably represented the earliest evidence of the development of a naturalistic-based (versus supernatural and/or magical) medicine.
		Finally, the analysis considers the continued evolution of Greek medicine in the Roman Empire, with a special focus on the work of Galen, another "father of medicine" who is generally regarded as the second-greatest (after Hippocrates) physician of antiquity.
	www.academictermpapers.com /abstracts/14000/14101.html (249 words)

	Egypt: Tour Egypt Monthly: Queens of Egypt, part III - Celopatra
		A rinse or gargle with garlic and water/vinegar.
		We cannot talk about ancient Egyptian medicine without speaking of the world’s earliest recorded physician, Imhotep, the prime minister of Zoser’s reign (founder of the Third Dynasty) and also chief architect of the first pyramid at Saqqara.
		The ancient Egyptians were the prototype of the holistic health practitioner.
	www.touregypt.net /magazine/mag05012001/magf4.htm (1229 words)

	Medicine in ancient Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite their known respect for Egyptian medicine, attempts to discern any particular influence on Greek practice at this early time have not been dramatically successful because of the lack of sources and the challenge of understanding ancient medical terminology.
		It is clear, however, that the Greeks definitely imported Egyptian substances into their pharmacopoeia, and the influence becomes more pronounced after the establishment of a school of Greek medicine in Alexandria.
		The existence of the Hippocratic Oath implies that this "Hippocratic" medicine was practiced by a group of professional physicians bound (at least among themselves) by a strict ethical code.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medicine_in_Ancient_Greece (1056 words)

	ancient egyptian medicine
		Ancient Egypt is too large a subject to try and encompass it all on one page of listings.
		The Egyptians had (and this is an understatement) a basic knowledge of organ functions within the human body (save for the brain and heart which they thought had opposite functions).
		With the turn of the century, new archaeological discoveries, increased knowledge of Egyptian language and writing, and the advent of more sophisticated medical techniques, new life was breathed into the study of disease and health in the ancient Nile Valley.
	www.archaeolink.com /ancient_egyptian_medicine.htm (1005 words)

	Egyptian Medicine Women’s health
		The Egyptians liked to have large families, partly because of the high mortality rate, and partly because a numerous progeny reflected credit on the parents especially he father.
		There were many prescriptions for aiding conception and the Egyptians developed their own forms of pregnancy tests to confirm the good news.
		In some ancient Egyptian cemeteries at least a third of all burials are those of children.
	www.kingtutshop.com /freeinfo/Medicine2.htm (1048 words)

	Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ancient Egyptian medicine was a mixture of magical and religious spells, with diagnosis and remedies usually based upon a keen observation of the patient.
		As many illness and conditions were regarded as the result of either malevolent influences or erroneous behaviour, the most common procedure for dealing with many problems was initially an amulet or magical spell.
		One of the best examples of the Egyptian approach to healing, consisting of a combination of magical spells, rituals and practical prescriptions, all of which would have been considered equally essential to the recovery of the patient.
	www.egyptologyonline.com /Medicine.htm (634 words)

	BBC News \| HEALTH \| Fancy footwork from Ancient Egyptians
		The discovery of a false toe attached to the foot of a mummy provides more evidence of the sophistication of ancient Egyptian medicine.
		The well-crafted wooden toe was discovered by a team investigating remains found in a burial chamber believed to be in the ancient city of Thebes.
		Dr John Taylor, assistant keeper of Egyptian antiquities at The British Museum in London, said that while this was not the only example of a prosthetic toe dating from ancient Egypt, it was one of the most revealing.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/1081368.stm (405 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Medicine-germantowacademy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Egyptians believed that illnesses were caused by demons that entered the body, which had to be removed.
		The Egyptians treated these illnesses with their many home made prescriptions, along with magic that the priests performed.
		The Egyptians also used henna to color the hair and skin, which was supposed to have the power to ward off danger.
	www.ga.k12.pa.us /academics/ms/6th/ancientegypt/jenh/Jen.html (424 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Literature
		Ancient Egyptian literature is characterized by a wide diversity of types and subject matter; it dates from the Old Kingdom (c.
		From the subsequent centuries, into the Greco-Roman era, examples from the full range of Egyptian literary forms are known; these include new religious compositions, private and royal historical records, instructions, stories, and scientific treatises such as medical, mathematical, and astronomical papyri.
		Contacts with contemporary Greek literature are evident both in the epic cycle and the fables, in Egyptian texts (including prophetic literature) translated into Greek, and in a range of magical texts known in both Greek and Egyptian.
	www.mysteries-in-stone.co.uk /ancient.htm (988 words)

	Egypt: Imhotep, Doctor, Architect, High Priest, Scribe and Vizier to King Djoser
		He is not only credited as the first pyramid architect, who built Djoser's Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara, but he may have had a hand in the building of Sekhemkhet's unfinished pyramid, and also possibly with the establishment of the Edfu Temple, but that is not certain.
		Along with medicine, he was also a patron of architects, knowledge and scribes.
		He was the patron spirit of the later scribes, to whom they regularly poured out a libation from the water-jug of their writing outfit before beginning their work.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/imhotep.htm (1269 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Egyptians were one of the first formally recognized civilizations to practice medicine in a systematic and well documented manner.
		Finally, the ancient Egyptians were mystified by the afterlife, and much of their medical science resided in mummification.
		Were it not for the ambition of the respective fathers of different medical traditions, the medicine of our day would not be as it is. This museum will serve as a scholarly tool, as well as a public forum for study and enlightenment of a most important facet of the history of civilizations.
	puffin.creighton.edu /museums/greiner/index.htm (412 words)

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