{"id":132594,"date":"2023-09-11T22:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/egypt-mesop-medicine-comparison-world-history-homework-help\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T22:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:08:06","slug":"egypt-mesop-medicine-comparison-world-history-homework-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/egypt-mesop-medicine-comparison-world-history-homework-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt mesop medicine comparison | World history homework help"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HIST\/SOSC 139 Due: Thursday 7 September 2023\n<\/p>\n

PART I. Short Answer Question. You may need to use a secondary source (a world history textbook or equivalent web site)
\nto answer the questions. Keeping your answers less than 1000 words (somewhere around 500), answer parts a), b) and c),
\nand the pedagogy question. Please use complete sentences, and cite your research sources. (Part II is in Canvas). You can
\neither turn in your work in Canvas or turn in a paper copy in class.\n<\/p>\n

Document 1: Egyptian Medical Treatments, written for Egyptian doctors, c. 1600 B.C.E.\n<\/p>\n

Instructions concerning a break in his upper arm
\nExamination
\nIf thou examines a man having a break in his upper arm, (and) thou finds his upper arm hanging down, separated from its fellow.
\nDiagnosis
\nThou should say concerning him: “One having a break in his upper arm. An ailment which I will treat.”
\nTreatment
\nThou should place him prostrate on his back, with something folded between his two shoulder-blades; thou should spread out his
\nshoulders, in order to stretch apart his upper arm until that break falls into its place. Thou should make for him two splints of linen,
\n(and) thou should apply one of them to the inside of his arm, (and) the other of them to the underside of his arm. Thou should bind
\nit with ymrw, (and) treat afterward with honey every day until he recovers.\n<\/p>\n

Instructions concerning a gaping wound in his shoulder
\nFirst examination
\nIf thou examines a man having a gaping wound in his shoulder its flesh being laid back and its sides separated, while he suffers
\nwith swelling (in) his shoulder blade, thou should palpate his wound, should thou find its gash separated from its sides in his
\nwound, as a roll of linen is unrolled, (and) it is painful when he raises his arm on account of it, thou should draw together for him
\nhis gash with stitching.
\nFirst diagnosis
\nThou should say concerning him: “One having a gaping wound in his shoulder , its flesh being laid back and its sides separated
\nwhile he suffers with swelling in his shoulder blade . An ailment which I will treat.”
\nFirst treatment
\nThou should bind it with fresh meat the first day.
\nSecond examination and treatment
\nIf thou finds that wound open and its stitching loose, thou should draw together for him its gash with two strips of linen over that
\ngash ; thou should treat it afterwards with grease, honey, (and) lint every day until he recovers .
\nIf thou finds a wound, its flesh laid back, it sides separated, in any member of a man, thou should treat it according to these
\ndirections.
\nThird examination
\nIf however, thou finds that his flesh has developed inflammation form that wound which is in his shoulder, while that wound is
\ninflamed, open , and its stitching loose , thou should lay thy hand upon it. Should thou find inflammation issuing from the mouth
\nof his wound at thy touch, and secretions discharging therefrom are cool like wenesh-juice .
\nThird diagnosis
\nThou should say concerning him: “One having a wound in his shoulder, it being inflamed , and he continues to have fever from it .
\nAn ailment with which I will contend.”
\nFourth examination
\nIf then thou finds that man continuing to have fever, while that wound is inflamed,
\nFourth treatment
\nThou shalt not bind it; thou shalt moor (him) at his mooring stakes, until the period of his injury passes by.
\nFifth examination
\nIf however, his fever abates and the inflammation in the mouth of his wound dissipates entirely.
\nFifth treatment
\nThou should treat him afterward with grease, honey, (and) lint every day, until he recover\n<\/p>\n

Document 2: From Hammurabi\u2019s Code, Babylon, Mesopotamia, c. 1770\n<\/p>\n

If a doctor has treated a gentleman for a severe wound with a bronze lancet and has cured the man, or has opened an abscess of the
\neye for a gentleman with the bronze lancet and has cured the eye of the gentleman, he shall take ten shekels of silver.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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If the patient be the son of a poor man, he shall take five shekels of silver.\n<\/p>\n

If the patient be a gentlemen\u2019s servant, the master of the servant shall five two shekels of silver to the doctor.\n<\/p>\n

If the doctor has treated a gentleman for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has caused the gentleman to die, or has
\nopened an abscess of the eye for the gentleman with the bronze lancet and has caused the loss of the gentlemen\u2019s eye, one shall cut
\noff his [the doctor\u2019s] hands.\n<\/p>\n

If a doctor has treated the severe wound of a slave of a poor man with a bronze lancet and has caused his death, he [the doctor]
\nshall render slave for slave.\n<\/p>\n

If he has opened his abscess with a bronze lancet and has made him lose his eye, he [the doctor] shall pay money, half his price.\n<\/p>\n

Please cite your research sources for parts a) and b).\n<\/p>\n

a) Describe a difference between the two documents that deal with medicine in the ancient world, and research one historical
\ndevelopment that would account for that difference.\n<\/p>\n

b) Describe a similarity between the two documents that deal with medicine in the ancient world, and research one historical
\ndevelopment that would account for that similarity.\n<\/p>\n

c) Choose ONE of the documents and explain the point of view of the author, using another piece of historical evidence to
\nsupport that point of view.\n<\/p>\n

PEDAGOGY QUESTION: PEDAGOGY: Explain at least two specific historical examples that would help students to
\nunderstand the purpose and significance of these documents. Please cite your source. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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