E-grāmata: Medicine among the ancient Egyptians

The papyri and the information they contain confirm that medicine was among the ancient Egyptians. It was limited to the priests of the temples, so the priest was the doctor, and the temple was of great importance as medical schools joined the large temples and medical schools were attached to them as places for treatment and treatment, and the treatment of the sick was done in the temples, so the priests would carry out the treatment and wear a white robe and shave their hair...and among their jobs was that they would bandage wounds and bandage fractures, and for this they used some surgical instruments that they had invented. As for ancient Egyptian medical philosophy, the ancient Egyptian was convinced that every organ had a god to protect it. They also said that air enters the body through the nose and ears; They believed that the origin of the soul is in the heart and brain. And that the soul will return to the body, they paid attention to the science of mummification, before which it was necessary to master the science of anatomy.