Trephination (also known as trepanning or burr holing) is a surgical intervention where a hole is drilled, incised or scraped into the skull using simple surgical tools. https://www.worldhistory.org/Trephination/ #History #EgyptianMedicine #GreekMedicine #Medicine

A famous story from Greece relates how a young woman named Agnodice wished to become a doctor in Athens but found this forbidden. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/49/female-physicians-in-ancient-egypt/ #History #Egypt #EgyptianCulture #EgyptianMedicine

A famous story from Greece relates how a young woman named Agnodice wished to become a doctor in Athens but found this forbidden. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/49/female-physicians-in-ancient-egypt/ #History #Egypt #EgyptianCulture #EgyptianMedicine

The ancient Egyptians experienced the same wide array of disease that people do in the present day, but unlike most people in the modern era, they attributed the experience to supernatural causes.https://www.worldhistory.org/article/51/egyptian-medical-treatments/ #EgyptianCulture #EgyptianMedicine #EgyptianPapyrus #History