Post by Mr Modica on Sept 8, 2013 17:54:03 GMT
Note: I have no problem with this being printed off and kept or added to your notes. I DO have a problem with people copying and pasting this for their homework. Your teacher WILL notice. You have been warned.
Egyptians believed that people became ill because of evil spirits and angry gods. Egyptian doctors used herbs and magic to treat their patients. They often couldn’t stop diseases spreading so still used protective charms and magic.
Mummies were made of important people, such as the Pharaoh. You needed a mummy because in the afterlife your soul needed to find your body, so it needed to be treated carefully. To embalm the bodies, first the brain is removed from the head and the skull cleaned. The intestines, heart, liver, stomach and lungs are removed. The heart is cleaned and put back inside the body (they needed their heart to be weighed to allow them into the afterlife, it had to weigh less than the Feather of Truth, if it didn’t the heart would be eaten by a monster and the dead person would disappear forever) and the other organs put into canopic jars. The body is washed and covered in a type of salt called natron and left to dry out for 40 days. Then the skin is rubbed with oil and wrapped in linen bandages. The body is put into a coffin inside a burial chamber with the jars of organs.
Medicine improved in Egypt because:
- the Egyptians were rich. They traded crops from the fertile soil around the River Nile and used the money to pay for specialist doctors (e.g. the Pharaoh’s doctor) and new bronze medical instruments. The Pharaoh also made sure that even the poorest Egyptians had access to medical treatment
- the Egyptians traded. Egyptian merchants traded with countries such as India and China and some African countries. The merchants’ ships picked up herbs and plants in these countries and brought new cures back to Egypt
- the Egyptians developed writing and paper. The Egyptians could record their medical cures with hieroglyphics on papyrus and pass them on accurately
- the Egyptians mummified their dead. When embalming bodies, the Egyptians took out parts of the body meaning they could learn about human anatomy. This is especially important because human dissection was illegal
- the River Nile flooded every year. As well as making farmers rich, the River Nile inspired them to come up with Blocked Channel Theory based around the idea that if the channels in the river could block when the river flooded, the same thing could happen in our bodies. This meant doctors examined bodies really closely looking for blockages and used treatments such as laxatives to get rid of the blockages.
This is important because it is a logical cause of disease
Thanks to Miss Webster
Egyptians believed that people became ill because of evil spirits and angry gods. Egyptian doctors used herbs and magic to treat their patients. They often couldn’t stop diseases spreading so still used protective charms and magic.
Mummies were made of important people, such as the Pharaoh. You needed a mummy because in the afterlife your soul needed to find your body, so it needed to be treated carefully. To embalm the bodies, first the brain is removed from the head and the skull cleaned. The intestines, heart, liver, stomach and lungs are removed. The heart is cleaned and put back inside the body (they needed their heart to be weighed to allow them into the afterlife, it had to weigh less than the Feather of Truth, if it didn’t the heart would be eaten by a monster and the dead person would disappear forever) and the other organs put into canopic jars. The body is washed and covered in a type of salt called natron and left to dry out for 40 days. Then the skin is rubbed with oil and wrapped in linen bandages. The body is put into a coffin inside a burial chamber with the jars of organs.
Medicine improved in Egypt because:
- the Egyptians were rich. They traded crops from the fertile soil around the River Nile and used the money to pay for specialist doctors (e.g. the Pharaoh’s doctor) and new bronze medical instruments. The Pharaoh also made sure that even the poorest Egyptians had access to medical treatment
- the Egyptians traded. Egyptian merchants traded with countries such as India and China and some African countries. The merchants’ ships picked up herbs and plants in these countries and brought new cures back to Egypt
- the Egyptians developed writing and paper. The Egyptians could record their medical cures with hieroglyphics on papyrus and pass them on accurately
- the Egyptians mummified their dead. When embalming bodies, the Egyptians took out parts of the body meaning they could learn about human anatomy. This is especially important because human dissection was illegal
- the River Nile flooded every year. As well as making farmers rich, the River Nile inspired them to come up with Blocked Channel Theory based around the idea that if the channels in the river could block when the river flooded, the same thing could happen in our bodies. This meant doctors examined bodies really closely looking for blockages and used treatments such as laxatives to get rid of the blockages.
This is important because it is a logical cause of disease
Thanks to Miss Webster