Egyptian Factors
Factors of change in anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural Egyptian times were positive and there was therefore some anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural in medicine and medical knowledge. The Egyptians had settled anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural and were ruled by a Pharoah (King). The Egyptians also developed written language (hieroglyphics) this allwowed to record and pass on knowledge and develop anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural. We know that Egyptians had schools. Egyptian anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural also helped medical knowledge progress. Their belief in the afterlife meant that priests practiced "anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural". The internal organs of important Egyptians would be cut out and anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural for the afterlife. Through this process much was leant about human anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural. The Egyptians also had settled towns and organised agriculture and trade. Their anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural was therefore also a positive factor in encouraging progress
Egyptian Medicine
The Ancient Egyptians, like the Greeks and Romans, have provided modern historians with a great deal of knowledge and evidence about their attitude towards anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural and the medical knowledge that they had. This evidence has come from the numerous papyruses found in archaeological searches.
Like prehistoric man, some of the beliefs of the Egyptians were based on the anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural. However, their knowledge was also based on an increasing knowledge of the human anatomy and plain commonsense.
In Ancient Egypt, the treatment of illnesses was no longer carried out only by magicians and medicine men. We have evidence that people existed who were referred to physicians and anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural.
Archaeological digs have also found evidence of men titled physicians. The hieroglyphics on the door to the tomb of Irj described him as a physician at the court of the pharaohs. Irj lived about 1500 BC.
Physicians lived even earlier in Ancient Egypt. anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural was the physician to King Zozer and lived in about 2600 BC. Imphotep was considered so important that he was, after his death, was worshipped as a god of healing.

Almost all of our knowledge about Ancient Egyptian medical knowledge comes from the discoveries of papyrus anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural. The very dry atmosphere in Egypt has meant that many of these documents have been very well preserved despite their age. Numerous papyrus documents have come from the era 1900 BC to 1500 BC. It is from these documents that we know that the Ancient Egyptians still believed that the supernatural caused some anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural.
When there was no obvious reason for an illness, many Ancient Egypt doctors and priests believed that disease was caused by spiritual beings. When no-one could explain why someone had a disease, anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural and magical potions were used to drive out the spirits
The Ancient Egyptians also had a god who would frighten away anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural spirits – Bes.
Despite this use of remedies that come from a lack of knowledge, the Ancient Egyptians also developed their knowledge as a result of education. Ancient papyrus documents inform us that the Ancient Egyptians were discovering things about how the human anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural worked and they knew that the heart, pulse rates, blood and air were important to the workings of the human body. A anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural that beat feebly told doctors that the patient had problems.
The Ancient Egyptians wrote down their anatomyAncientbodydiseasedoctorsdocumentsEconomyeducationevilGovernmentheartImphotepknowledgemedicinemummificationpreservedprogressreligionspellssupernatural and this is found on what is known as the Papyrus Ebers: