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Show Medicine in Ancient Egypt. Thcro Is much evidence In Inscriptions Inscrip-tions and manuscripts that the ancient Egyptians practiced mcdlclno nnd surgery sur-gery extensively. Prbbably their practice prac-tice was based on llttlo knowlcdgo of unatomy. Each physician treated only ono or two diseases. Tho sick wero exposed In public places so that others oth-ers who had suffered similarly might tell them of helpful remedies. Diseases Dis-eases of the eye wero best understood and received both medical and surgical sur-gical treatment. Tho most Important modical manuscript found In Egypt Is the Papyrus Ebors, written 3000 B. C, and discovered In Memphis. Disease, according to tho . Egyptians, was duo to tho anger of boiuo deity, tho result of tho triumph of evil In Its stragglo with good an Idea which Ib still vory general throughout Africa and Asia, nnd which nt somo tlmo has been prevalent In modified forms In almost ovory race. Records of tho Past. |