HEDVIG 2011 1SDB2019
Győry Hedvig
„Some aspects of magic in
ancient Egyptian medicine”, în Ancient Egyptian Demonology:
Studies on the boundaries between the Demonic
and the
Divine in Egyptian Magic
P. Kousoulis (ed.), OLA 175, Leuven, 2011, pp.
151-166. (pdf.)
Fragment
„The Egyptian medical papyri
have shown that the ancient Egyptians were masters in drug therapy, in applying
ointments or arranging bandages, and in recognising the internal and external
features of various infections and diseases. Their results were well known and
appreciated even outside Egypt — some of them were also transferred through
Graeco-Roman and Arab medicine into European healing art. The Egyptian approach
to medical therapy was based on a concatenate protocol of empirical observation
and magical applications which was deeply rooted in the religious system of
beliefs and practices. The two facets, experiment and belief, were regarded as
equally important. The practitioner had to come in terms with not only the
physical symptoms of the disease, but also the supernatural cause of illness.
In many cases he had to repel the demonic influence that caused the disease and
restore its harmful effect” (p. 151).
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