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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:It was! Ancient Egyptian physicians were both male and female and were well versed in internal anatomy, partially due to such familiarity with the anatomy of the embalming process. They were capable of many "modern" surgeries and even, as I recall, heart surgery. They understood much of how the heart is interconnected with all of our other internal systems. Mortality rates for Egyptian surgeries were lower than they were hundreds and hundreds of years later in Europe, because physicians valued cleanliness and would bathe before treating patients. They practiced dentistry and gynecology and understood that mental illness is in fact an illness that needed treatment. They combined what we think of as traditional medicine with faith and spell-based care. Greek and Roman physicians who received their medical training in Egypt were held in high regard. They discarded the brain as a useless organ though.
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Platystemon posted:They discarded the brain as a useless organ though. Well?
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Platystemon posted:They discarded the brain as a useless organ though. No they ate the brain. That is why all the people hieroglyphics look like zombies. Learn a history.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:It was! Ancient Egyptian physicians were both male and female and were well versed in internal anatomy, partially due to such familiarity with the anatomy of the embalming process. They were capable of many "modern" surgeries and even, as I recall, heart surgery. They understood much of how the heart is interconnected with all of our other internal systems. Mortality rates for Egyptian surgeries were lower than they were hundreds and hundreds of years later in Europe, because physicians valued cleanliness and would bathe before treating patients. They practiced dentistry and gynecology and understood that mental illness is in fact an illness that needed treatment. They combined what we think of as traditional medicine with faith and spell-based care. Greek and Roman physicians who received their medical training in Egypt were held in high regard. You know, it actually makes a lot of sense that they understood a lot about the human body from all the elaborate and in-depth mummification processes. I do wonder if there's a connection to how Arab medicine and hygiene was leaps and bounds ahead of Europe for centuries.
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Arabs got their start studying Greek texts which also had stuff the Greeks learned from the Egyptians.
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I’m an Egyptophile too! When visiting Cairo I saw a huuuuge billboard advertising Heineken. Which I found weird because it’s like having a giant billboard advertising, like, Harameken
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I thought this thread might enjoy knowing that last night I dreamed there was a Fast and Furious-style Duke Cannon movie that finally revealed his identity at the very end: Helen Mirren.
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Phy posted:The Edwin Smith papyrus is one of my favourite things that exists. For those who haven't heard of it, it's basically a trauma manual for the upper body (presumably it also addressed the lower body, but that part is missing). It describes various injuries to the head, neck, arms and torso; prescribes treatments for these; and recommends the physician says whether they can treat it, try to treat it, or do nothing for it, depending on the severity of the injury, as there's no sense bringing shame on the profession like if you said "oh yeah I can totally fix this" about an almost certainly fatal wound. It provides definitions for terms the reader might be unfamiliar with, and it describes things like the corrugations of the brain, and how it pulsates with blood flow. It describes upper spinal injuries causing paralysis, and for those interested in a briskly paced and very amusingly written overview of how tragically stupid medicine was for most of the past few millennia I recommend Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages by Nathan Belofsky. I just finished it like a week or so ago so it really makes a poignant and depressing contrast with the information in the above quote. It's wild how little medicine had to do with science across many cultures for such a long time, despite the occasional doctor speaking up to say "Uh actually I've cut open hundreds of bodies and never seen 'green humour' so" it was like just a contest for who was the most effective and persuasive bullshitter.
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if a thing your medicine mentions should be present is absent, that's clearly the cause of death.
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sweeperbravo posted:for those interested in a briskly paced and very amusingly written overview of how tragically stupid medicine was for most of the past few millennia I recommend Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages by Nathan Belofsky. I just finished it like a week or so ago so it really makes a poignant and depressing contrast with the information in the above quote. It's wild how little medicine had to do with science across many cultures for such a long time, despite the occasional doctor speaking up to say "Uh actually I've cut open hundreds of bodies and never seen 'green humour' so" it was like just a contest for who was the most effective and persuasive bullshitter. There is also the Sawbones podcast (and now book!),
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More very good Tumblr ads         I tried to click that last one. The link was broken flavor.flv has a new favorite as of 12:23 on Jan 31, 2021 |
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It's like the new Seanbaby and Brockway (and general Cracked refugee) site where they have fake ads from other dimensions, but way more effortlessly insane.
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I only have mediocre pens to look at. 
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You could look up some new ones at Pen Island. Pretty sure they have a website but I can't remember the address at the moment.
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I think I'll only need the first one, thanks.
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Idk about the rest of all that, but there's definitely stage 1 beef baby food. There's some in my kitchen right now.
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Weird thing to call your dick but ok
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flavor.flv posted:Weird thing to call your dick but ok idgi
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Telemaze posted:idgi Best I’ve got is ‘your dick is soft and tasteless’ which is a dece burn, but it goes hard in an aatrek direction for no real reason.
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Speaking of food and Egyptology, I still wanna try that sarcophagus juice
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Picnic Princess posted:Speaking of food and Egyptology, I still wanna try that sarcophagus juice 
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Telemaze posted:Idk about the rest of all that, but there's definitely stage 1 beef baby food. There's some in my kitchen right now. It smells like cat food and my baby loving hated it. We ended up cooking and pureeing our own beef paste, which she liked a lot.
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Picnic Princess posted:Speaking of food and Egyptology, I still wanna try that sarcophagus juice 
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Why eat a mummy when you can use it as pain? "Mummy brown - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
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Pain, paint, train fuel, is there anything mummies can't do?
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Knormal posted:Pain, paint, train fuel, is there anything mummies can't do? Know the feeling of true love
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Knormal posted:Pain, paint, train fuel, is there anything mummies can't do? Jump
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Knormal posted:Pain, paint, train fuel, is there anything mummies can't do? Kill Brendan Frazier.
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Do not kill that man. He is wonderful and deserves love
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Captain Monkey posted:Kill Brendan Frazier. I'm pretty sure his alimony payments are what did that
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Gaius Marius posted:I'm pretty sure his alimony payments are what did that I thought it was his refusal to let hollywood types sexually assault him
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gently caress I never heard that. I don't even wanna know. Dude killed it in the mummy for such a cheesy movie. He should've had a decent career
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Gaius Marius posted:I'm pretty sure his alimony payments are what did that Him and Dave Foley should get together and talk about when they used to have money.
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The drake guy from drake and josh as well. Dude got absolutely hosed and ended up having to do three godawful live action fairly odd parents movies. Apparently Josh won't take his calls now.
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Len posted:I thought it was his refusal to let hollywood types sexually assault him That basically dropped his income dramatically, which is how the alimony payments really got him- they were based on when he was making bank and he couldn’t get them adjusted to reflect his current income.
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All that plus his injury’s on films which really messed him up.
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