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Umar Nazir 10U EGYPT Link Between Medicine & Religion Egyptians had good ideas on how to treat people of minor illnesses, cuts and broken bones. They wrote all their knowledge down on papyrus, we know this because we have found such findings. The Egyptians have found cures for diseased eyes and diseased bladders. Also on papyrus, there are instructions telling us how to treat a broken nose. All these cures were natural, they used herbs, plants and things they found around them, they even used mice! The medicine aspect had a great link to the religious aspect. They used Draram to stop evil spirits from coming near a person (Draram was classed as a medicine). The doctors were segregated into three groups, they were: surgeon-healers, priest-doctors and pure magicians. If the surgeon-healer failed to heal the patient, the priest-doctor would try. The priest-doctors recited special prayers to the gods during...

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