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Illness was considered a

punishment by the gods on the sinnerwho had violated a moral

code.

The belief of the

culture :



Cuneiform Tablets

Medicalpractices

PrescriptionsDrugs





“ Treatise of

Medical

Diagnosis and

Prognoses”



Mesopotamian diseases are often blamed

on pre-existing spirits

A number of diseases simply were identified

by names

God , Ghosts , etc...

Bennu



Malfunction organs Illness

Specific offerings were made to a particular

god or ghost when it was considered to be a

causative factor.



Mostly taken from :plants ,resins or spices

Spices and resins antibiotic values

Most medicine has antibiotic

properties

E.g. , “ Lion’s fat” (commonly known as tiger lily or “babybreath”)



Temples - sites for diagnosis of illness

Home - primary centre for health care

Care giver –

family members

River - Healing process outside home

TEMPLEHOMERIVER



Ashipu (sorcerer)

Determined which god or

demon was causing

the illness .

Asu(a specialist in herbal remedies)

Dealt in what were often classifiable asempirical applications of medication.





supernatural causes for many diseases

prevention > curepublic health government

ideas adopted from ROMAN Roman conquered Alexandria city

librariesuniversities



1st doctor to appear in Rome were Greek,captured as prisoners of war.

ALEXANDRIA – centre of learning

Great Library Doctors were allowed to carry out dissections –

DISCOVERIESFour Humours and texts by Hipocrates and his

followers (Hippocratic Writings), who were all Greek.



ASCLEPIUS

SURGERY

TEMPLE

WATER





From circa 3300 BC until the Persian invasion of 523

BC.

Often characterized by magical incantations anddubious ingredients and research in

biomedical Egyptology.



- A roll of 20.23 m long and

30 cm high.

- Includes 877 prescriptions.

- Contains the earliest

documented awareness of tumors.



Mummification

- Preservation of body.

- Part of ancientEgyptian funerary

practice.



Death body takento tent

(place of purification)

Viscera (internalorgans) were

removed and dried,ringed, andbandaged.

Placed in canopic jars and Parcels

which place withbody.

Body - dehydrated

for 40 days.

Body cavity restuffed with clean Natron,

regin-soakedbandages and sweetsmelling aromatics.

Bandaging is

carried out for 15days.



Herbal Remedies...







Humour black bile yellow bile blood phlegmQuality dry cold hot wet

Temperament melancholic choleric sanguine phlegmatic

Body Part spleen blood liverbrain

(pituitary)Season autumn spring summer winter

Age of Man maturity infancy youth old age

ImbalanceCauses frenzy,

diarrhoea epilepsy, winter colds



Father of medicine

HIPPOCRATICOATH

Student of Plato

FOUR BASICQUALITIES

Father of sportmedicine

CUPPINGTHERAPY

HIPPOCRATES ARISTOTLE GALEN



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HippocraticOath.jpg





scalpels bone forceps

catheters hooks

MEDICALINSTRUMENT



Ancient medicine was created by our ancestors

by research through trial and error method.Therefore, for the better healthcare service inour community life, we must do research and

development on how to enhance the efficiency

of modern medicine.





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