The history of medicine goes back over thousands of years and is still developing today. Medicine was used to diminish illness and heal injury since the beginning of humanity. In ancient times, if one was to become sick or injured, Egypt would have been the best place to do so. Egyptians chances of survival would have been remarkably better than those of one’s foreign peer, but one had the opportunity of being treated by a physician whose work was displayed all over the ancient world and has made a huge impact and change in the modern world that we know today.
The Egyptian civilization was the first great civilization. During ancient Egypt (3300bc to 525bc) is where we first see what, today, we call “Medical care”. Egyptians thought that evil
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They thought that the channel provided the body with good health. If the channels became blocked, they would use laxatives to unblock them. They thought the heart was also a channel because it was in the center of the body. They were correct to a certain degree, but our veins, arteries, and even intestines serve a way more important function than what they thought. Today we have medical records, in Ancient Egypt they had the “Ebers Papyrus”, medical documents which may have been written around 1500bc. It’s a 20-meter-long scroll with about 100 pages. The “Ebers Papyrus” held over 700 remedies and formulas. It also contained what the Egyptians thought were spells to cast demons out of bodies. When looking at modern medicine today and comparing to Ancient Egyptian medicine there are some major differences. Modern medicine has the technology advances we need to detect and treat the many different medical conditions and diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and other kinds of infectious agents. During Ancient Egyptian times they didn’t have the technology we have today, so the people back then would die from most diseases, which, today we have