Teaching medicine in the era of Pharaohs
The civilizations of the ancient world are rich in many sciences, they are the basis of our modern world. Our lives have been affected by those peoples who lived and formed these civilizations in different parts of the world. At the top of these civilizations comes the civilization of the pharaohs. The greatness of this civilization throughout history. The Pharaohs reached the highest degrees of science in various fields, which are still a reference for the developed countries to solve many of the puzzles that can not be solved so far, especially in the field of medicine.
Pharaonic advances in medicine
For more than 4,000 years BC, the ancient Egyptians began to practice various medical sciences. They were the first to create the profession of the practicing doctor, which still exists. The doctor, "Amhotep", was the first practicing physician in the Pharaonic era. On their progress in the field of medicine, for example, found the writings of the use of paint cream for the prevention and treatment of parasites that affect the eye. It was doctors and priests in the era of the Pharaohs who have been teaching and training students in the arts of medicine in the temples for many years because there are no schools to teach medicine at the time and to link medicine to religious rites and magic.
The art of embalming the pharaohs in providing doctors with full information about the composition of the human body, where they knew the composition of brain fluids and the correct status of the heart, as they know that the arteries are responsible for the transfer of blood within the body where was in the process of embalming take out all internal intestines of the dead and put In vessels called "canopic pots" placed with the mummy in the burial chamber. It has been discovered recently by examining some mummies that Egyptian pharaohs doctors have performed many surgical procedures.
Most of the doctors 'attention was focused on women and children. The pharaonic findings revealed the doctors' interest in treating infertility. They were also interested in knowing the fetus type and reached eleven ways of generating normal cases and difficult cases. Doctors also used recipes from natural substances to treat diseases common in ancient Egypt such as intestinal influenza And the pain of the stomach and cough and pain of teeth, they are the first to use natural materials and herbs in the treatment of many diseases, which is still used so far, and they found the invention of the water clock, which is measured by regular heartbeat. The flourishing of various medical fields in the fourth century BC,
The most famous papyrus papyrus, discovered and interpreted by Edwin Smith and Apers, which included the names of some common ailments and how to treat them with natural substances, also included explanations of the steps of some surgeries, as well as how some of the prescriptions worked. But included some magic spells that were also practiced as part of the treatment process.
The Pharaohs civilization was still a great example of human progress in antiquity, from which our present world has discovered much, but certainly not much has yet been discovered either in the progress of the pharaohs in medicine, astronomy or engineering or in their progress and buried their secrets with them in their temples, World effects.
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