History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enema, Ancient Egyptian Medicine, Cauterization
11 Mar 2014
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Syria/iran: within, several different civilizations have existed sumerian, chaldean, Assyrian, babylonian: ancient history period: 3000 bc 450 bc, land is very fertile which leads to agriculture, people flock to the area = large number of humans, sumerians (ca. Dominant system of writing in mesopotamia for 2000 years. Some recorded ideas about science, medicine, math. Two categories scholars labelled cuneiform scientific and practical: two categories reflected nature of the knowledge within the tablets. Illness = from sins: to be healed, treatment = exorcism, confession, purgative (cleansing) drugs could be used as a form of treatment, law code of hammurabi (ca. 1700bc) hammurabi was a babylonian monarch legal decisions made by hammurabi will he was judge his. Justice / laws were put on a tablet. Law: doctors were responsible for any errors made when treating patient. Compensation of doctor was dependent on status of patient if patient lived and got better, doctor would be compensated.
