Medicinal beliefs in ancient Egypt
Nobody in the ancient world really understood what caused diseases or how to cure them. Egyptian doctors mostly believed that evil spirits either got inside your body or sent poisons inside your body to make you sick. The doctors would make them eat or drink something very nasty and smelly, as they thought the evil spirit wouldn’t like the smell and it would leave the body. If that didn’t work the doctors tried to clean your insides out to get rid of the poison, by giving you laxatives or bleeding you. And they prayed to Sekhmet, the goddess of healing. In ancient Egypt the medical knowledge was very basic as they didn't’t understand the way of the human body and the right way to cure however they did understand how to make the right medicine as they crushed up herbs.