History 2812E Lecture Notes - Ebers Papyrus, Dominate, Extrapolation
7 Dec 2012
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Nov 7 essay - speckled monster 400 pages. Extrapolate historical themes and apply them to this class. This is historical fiction read the historical documents surrounding this event. X-rays allow us to look at mummies in greater detail. Can find out average height and weight. Diseases arthritis, tooth decay heart diseases, tb, polio. There is a problem with this only the rich get mummified. So we can only see what the elite diseases were. Common people may have suffered from other afflictions. During this period 5000-1000 bc they practice priestly medicine. Priest-physician : they brought together the supernatural and the natural. Homer visits egypt in 1000 bc, described it as the mother country of disease but they also praise the physicians at this time. There are a lot of physicians they were specialized. The top of the food chain is the priest-physician. (three healers, priest, healer, and magician) You would need spells to eradicate them.
