Egypt
Medicine
Did you know there
are documents that tell
us what medicine was
like in Ancient Egypt?
The Ebers Papyrus is
believed to be written
in 1600 BC and the
Edwin Smith Papyrus
in 1550 BC. These
documents tell us
about
medicines,
ingredients
and
surgeries that were
used in those times.
Medicine was vacant
in the Old and Middle
Age of Ancient Egypt.
Medicines started to
appear in the new Age
of
Ancient
Egypt.
There was a medicine
that cared for a
disease called worm’s
disease. What would
happen in worm’s
disease is worms start
living on your body. It
is really disgusting!!!!!
They would crawl on
your skull and live
there. This medicine
would
kill
those
worms. Without this
medicine
people
would die from worm’s
disease.
Before medicine was
created surgery was
the first thing to do in
Ancient Egypt. They
used scissors, knifes,
and more. There was
no numbing out the
pain. These surgeries
would cause scars
and people would be
walking around with
those scars on their
bodies for everyone to
see. Some people
would make fun of
these scars. If the
King found out about
that they could be
executed.
The ingredients were
crucial in medicine in
Ancient Egypt. Many
doctors would not tell
their patients what
was
inside
the
medicine they would
use. In some medicine
they
would
use
crocodile
dropping’s
(snot, poop, etc.) They
did not tell them
because some of the
ingredients were gross
but those ingredients
helped.
In
conclusion,
the different types of
medicine, ingredients
surgeries that were
developed back in the
days of Ancient Egypt
kept people alive and
society growing.
Written by David Lund