the structure of the materials inside a medical bag needs to be arranged in such a manner, that the treating physician to be able, even blindfolded, to quite his way through, in order to easy grasp every instrument and tool. this was an axiom firstly recorded by hippocrates in ancient greece. on the other hand, egyptians and palestinians used medical kids at about the same era, followed in late...

Surfaces and their interactions are at the heart of living systems and all moving objects. They have fascinated man from the ancient Egyptians, through Leonardo Da Vinci in the Renaissance period, to nanotechnologists of today. This paper elucidates the science of surfaces and their interactions, covering the importance of surfaces and how they influence us all in terms of energy, environment a...

Animistic attitudes towards natural objects as prevailing forms of understanding nature and reality are found across all pre-modern societies. Sun and moon are, like other mere physical objects, understood in terms of animate and conscious beings or persons. Ancient peoples feel personal relations towards these heavenly bodies, worship them as gods and make sacrifices to feed them. The sun cult...

Cancer has been known since of human history. The earliest written record regarding cancer can be dated back to circa 1600 BC by Egyptians. Cancer is a general condition which is subdivided into a group of conditions that are concerned with an abnormal growth in the cells within an organ or a tissue with the chance of spreading and invading other parts of the body. The number of cancer patients...

The Daily Ritual was one of a series of cultic rituals performed for the statue of the god by temple priests each day. Performed in the morning after the fi rst light of dawn, it was complemented by similar but more abbreviated rituals in the afternoon and evening. The Egyptians believed that the gods themselves had established the correct form of the rituals, and along with the celebration of ...

Worth Estes's main interest lies in why and how ancient physicians used drugs to combat their patients' ailments. He considers the role of the physician in ancient Egypt, from Imhotep (deified by later generations as an Egyptian god of medicine) to the general practitioners. The two main sources of evidence for medicine in ancient Egypt are the medical papyri and the archaeological information ...