The Medicine of Egypt 
Ancient Egypt

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Throughout all of time, from the Stone Age to the Islamic period, the doctors of Egypt were the best in the Western world, though there were also very good doctors in India and China. But that isn't really saying very much: nobody in the ancient world really understood why we got 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. If you were ill, the doctors made you eat or drink really disgusting remedies, that smelled awful. They hoped the evil spirit wouldn't like the smell and would leave your body. Or 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. If you have a cold, they gave human milk to drink. These magic things could really help you, because often people get better when they just see the doctor doing something (a placebo).

However, Egyptian doctors did also use effective medical treatments. They massaged aching legs and calves, and they set broken arms and legs. Specialized dentists pulled infected teeth.

Modern Egypt                                                                                                                                      modernegypt.info

The Egyptian Healthcare system is run by the Government. Life Expectancy is quite high in Egypt, 73.45 years. However Egypt has a high rate of Hepatitis C. It is one of the largest in the world. Egypt (22%) while contries like Pakistan (4.8%), China (3.2%) and say Ireland (0.03%) are much lower

The Air quality in Cairo is very low. Spending one day in the city breathing in the air is the same as smoking 20 cigarettes.