Illnesses In The Aztec's Empire

When it comes to the term “ancient civilization” many people think about how the civilization raised or how the people lived? How they regulated their lands? Or what they used to eat? Etc. One of the aspects that many people are curious about is the old-world medicine, how ancient people dealt with illnesses and how they treated their patients? As for the American civilization, the most recorded advanced medicine was in the Aztec’s empire. The Aztec’s Empire was the most powerful Mesoamerican kingdom of old ages. In fact, their culture was full of creativity with a combination of methodology and religious tradition. They arrived in the Valley of Mexico in 1325C.E, and their name means Aztlan people, where they were originally from. In fact,

The Aztec suggested that the human body is affected by the person’s own beliefs. they had a unique view of the health of human body, they believed that there is a balance between the body and the universe, thus, they are both affected by each other. They considered that happiness and health are sequences of good manners subjected to the god’s will. In contrast, Aztecs believed that sins and faults can cause many dangerous illnesses, they thought that god can cause the illness and cure it. Aztec doctors used herbs to cure many types of illnesses but for severe ones, they linked it to gods’ dissatisfaction. Also, they thought that the most effective ways to treat gods’ illnesses were offerings, prayers, and confession. So, when a person commits a sin, he should confess about what he did and he will probably get well faster than using any treatment. And the speech of confession had its own powers, they classified the speeches between bad speech, foreigner speech, and good speech; choosing the right words help to cure the patients faster and give them the energy to get better. One of the famous Aztec’s theory about illnesses is that that the enemy can use dark magic that causes illness, there are many ways to cure those kinds of magic-related diseases. One way was to use an amulet, small ornament believed to attract good luck and keep dark powers away. While this small ornament could be

The Aztecs made knives from volcanic glass, they sharpened them and used them to perform surgeries and after the surgery is done they used the herbal medicine they created and cover the patient’s body in order not to let it get infected, they had an advanced surgical system and they were good at healing the wounds. The Tictils dealt with wounds carefully, they cleaned them gently, then they washed it with urine, and used medical plants and vegetables to rub and cover the wound so it would get better faster. The way the Aztec’s doctor dealt with wounds attracted European physician so after hundreds of years, the European’s started using Aztec’s methodology to treat the wounded. The Aztecs had a developed bone surgery which was the most advanced kind of surgeries. They were famous for healing the fractures, they used traction and counter traction, which means to pull the weight of the body to a correct order to relieve pressure on the muscles and bones, and that helped to avoid deformities. They were aware of the importance of immobilizing the fracture so they used splints. In complicated fractures when the bone fail to bond together again they uncovered the bone and used resinous stick then inserted it in the bone to combine the fracture together again, then they used medical herbs to rub the patient’s body. Aztecs’ bone surgery was greatly developed and it affected many