Ancient Egyptian Surgery

Ancient Egyptian surgery tools

The oldest metal (Bronze or copper) straight tools in the world were saw in the tomb of Qar. Surgery was a frequent exercise among physicians as handling for physical injuries. The Egyptian physicians recognized three categories of injuries; treatable, disputable, and untreatable complaints. Treatable ailments the surgeons would quickly set to right. Contestable ailments were those where the victim could presumably survive without treatment, so patients accepted to be in this class were observed and if they gone then surgical attempts could be made to fix the problem with them. They used knives, hooks, drills, forceps, pincers, scales, spoons, saws and a vase with burning incense.

Circumcision of males was the normal exercise, as stated by Herodotus in his Histories. [clarification needed] Though its functioning as a procedure was rarely mentioned, the uncircumcised nature of other cultures was oftentimes noted, the uncircumcised nature of the Liberians was frequently registered and military campaigns got back uncircumcised phalli as trophies, which evokes novelty. However, other records describe initiates into the religious orders as regarding circumcision which would imply that the practice was great and not widespread. The only knew depiction of the procedure, in The Tomb of the Physician, burial place of Ankh-Mahor at Saqqara, points adolescents or grownups, not babies. Female circumcision may have been old, although the single reference to it in ancient texts may be a mistranslation.

Prosthetics, such as artificial toes and eyeballs, were also used; typically, they served little more than decorative purposes. In planning for burial, losing body parts would be exchanged; however, these do not appear as if they would have been useful, or even clip-on, before death.

The great use of surgery, mummification practices, and autopsy as a religious exercise gave Egyptians a large knowledge of the body's morphology, and even a considerable understanding of organ functions. The function of most major organs was correctly presumedfor exercise, blood was right guessed to be a transpiration medium for vitality and waste which is not also far from its actual role in carrying oxygen and removing carbon dioxidewith the exclusion of the heart and brain whose uses were exchanged.

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