Although they had many “cures” for various ailments, some of their medicinal practices were questionable at best.įor instance, they used honey and human brains to cure eye infections, a cooked mouse to cure coughs and applied cow dung to wounds and piercing to ward off infections. It attempts to describe and analyze the brain, providing the earliest insight into neuroscience. One of the earliest accounts of medical texts originates in ancient Egypt.
They had a variety of medicines and cures for both humans and animals, along with much knowledge of anatomy, as they practiced mummification and preservation of the dead. Some of the earliest developments in medicine were made by the ancient Egyptian people.
