Ancient Egypytian

Question 1

Why did doctors from other countries not learn about Egyptian medicine?

Answer 1

The 2 different kind of writings - hieroglyphs and hieratic were not understand by people from other countries, who had their own kinds of writing

Question 2

What were doctors like in Ancient Egypt?

Answer 2

Mixture of doctors and priest
Carefully trained, studying the medical papyri recording cases and treatments
Some were general doctors treating soldiers or labourers on hide building projects
All used a variety of treatment- herbal remedies, simple surgery, charms, prayers and chants

Question 3

How were specialist doctors developed In Ancient Egypt?

Answer 3

The Pharoah and his lords were very rich and could afford to spend money employing their own doctors - so the doctors themselves were wealthy enough to spend their time improving their medical knowledge

Question 4

What did Doctors in Ancient Egypt know about about body? How did they learn about it?

Answer 4

Knew many parts of the bodies anatomy- the heart, lungs, liver and brain and about veins, arteries, muscles and many bones - didn’t know what each part did.
Learnt about the body by examining wounded soldiers or workers injured on building projects; removed and preserve organs after death (embalming)

Question 5

Why did Ancient Egyptian doctors not learn about the human body through dissection?

Answer 5

Because their religion didn’t allow it, said that the body was needed In the after-life

Question 6

What did Egyptians continue to believe caused illnesses?

Answer 6

Gods and Evil spirits

Question 7

What new natural theory did the Ancient Egyptians come up with that caused illnesses? Where did it come from?

Answer 7

Illnesses was caused when the channels in the body became blocked. The idea came from farming
Egypt was rich for farming; people made sure their crops got plenty of water by digging irrigation channels from the river Nile to their fields.
If those channels kept running the crops grew well but if the channel became blocked, the crops did. It get enough water and died

Question 8

Describe in detail the Egyptians theory of the blocked channels causing illnesses?

Answer 8

As long as blood, air and water flowed through the channels around he body people would stay healthy

Question 9

What did Egyptians think caused diseases?

Answer 9

U digested food rotting in the bowels
This would cause blockages in the channels and make people ill
Rotting food let of gases seeped along the channels, causing diseases in different places and preventing the normal flow of blood, air and water

Question 10

How did Egyptians Prevent illnesses?

Answer 10

Took great care to keep clean; probably as part of their religions to stay at peace with Gods.
Washed twice a day and every night in cold water before meals
Used soda, scented oil and ointments as soap
Egyptian ladies shaved their bodies with bronze razors and used make-up that included powdered emerald green copper ore; may have helped reduce eye infection

Question 11

How did Richer people prevent illnesses in Ancient Egypt?

Answer 11

Contained room for washing and bathing but they did not have plumbing to bring Water in and out
People bathed by having a servant pour water over them from a jug
The waste water ran away through a hole in the wall, draining a sunken vase in the floor or into stone drains in the street

Question 12

What were toilets like for the poor and the rich

Answer 12

Toilets for the poor consisted of a wooden stool with a hole cut in it, above a cup half-filled with sand
Rich families had a limestone seat over a bowl standing in a pit
Both had to be emptied by hand

Question 13

How did the government in Ancient Egypt help people stay healthy?

Answer 13

They didn’t!
Keeping clean was up to each individual
The Pharoah and his government did not do anything to protect the people from illnesses

Question 14

What were the everyday treatment in Ancient Egypt?

Answer 14

Doctors, priest and mothers used treatments made from herbs, plants, minerals and animal parts
Most were local (honey) others brought from traders abroad

Question 15

Doctors developed new treatments to unblock, blocked channels. What was this?

Answer 15

Included bleeding the patients (taking blood out their veins) of making the patients vomit or empty their bowels

Question 16

What survey was carried out in Ancient Egypt?

Answer 16

Simple surgery on the outside of the body, such as cutting out swellings or seeing up wounds
They also carried out trephining, cutting holes in the skull, to ease pain or swellings

Question 17

Why were doctors in Ancient Egypt allowed to carry out better surgeries than previously?

Answer 17

Had stronger, sharper bronze surgical instruments thanks to improved metal-working skills
Egyptian metal workers had honed their skills by making weapons and embalming tools, fine jewellery and tools for builders

Question 18

Why was writing important Ancient Egyptian?

Answer 18

One of the first people to develop writing
Doctors recorded their medical cases, detailing symptoms, how to examine a patient and treatments
Doctors could pass on their knowledge more easily to new generations of a
Egyptian doctors

Question 19

Describe Egyptian hygiene

Answer 19

Cleanliness was valued

They bathed, shaved their heads and had toilets. They also changed their clothes regularly

Question 20

What drug was used in Ancient Egypt?

Answer 20

Opium

Still used today

Question 21

What was ‘ Living ‘ like in Ancient Greek?

Answer 21

Believed that you be healthy they need to exercise
Hygiene was important, with emphasis placed on washing
Diet was also thought to be important

Question 22

What common belief did Greeks still believe caused illnesses?

Answer 22

Gods - if there was a good harvest they said God was peases

If there was an earthquake they said the gods were angry

Question 23

What was an Asclepion?

Answer 23

Temples where people went when they became ill
Dedicated to Ascepius, the Greek god of healing
Each one had its own experienced and skilled priest

Question 24

What would happen when people visited the asclepion?

Answer 24

Priests encouraged patients, depending on their illness, to take exercise and cleanse themselves in the baths
Patients built up their strength by eating regular meals and had plenty of rest, including time for prayer

Question 25

What did the priests do in the asclepion?

Answer 25

The priests also carried out simple surgery, probably while the patient was in a drugged sleep.
Also did ward rounds, performing rituals which involved placing snakes on the patients
Success stories were recorded in inscriptions on the walls of asclepions

Question 26

What was a way of treating blindness in Ancient Greece?

Answer 26

Mixing an ointment of crushed garlic, verjuice, squids and vinegar and put in on their eyes

Question 27

How are garlic, vinegar, vinegar and squill helpful in treatments?

Answer 27

Garlic acts as an antibiotic
Vinegar cleans wounds like anti septic
Veronica is the of u ripe fruit such as green apples
Squill is a plant used in a range of cures

Question 28

What were the Greek healers like?

Answer 28

If you had money, you could have a choice of healers
I holy man or magician could sell you a prayer or a charm to save you from I’ll-health or you could see a physician
Physicians usually trained for several years as apprentices to another doctor, father or uncle
They studied the books in the Hippocratic collection
Women were the healers most people saw
Experienced women were called in as midwives