Discover the ancient health care system

We often think that modern society with outstanding achievements of new science opens up many effective health care methods.

But archaeologists have also discovered a lot of surprises about the health care achievements of the ancient people.

The ancient Egyptians had the first national health care system

At least in the field of health, ancient Egypt has a model that is quite similar to today's health care system. In Deir el-Medina, a village in the mountains near the valley of the kings, when excavating the sites shows evidence of a national health care system from the period of 1292 to 1077 BC was noted by scientists. There are thousands of documented medical care items, such as the people in this village, who are entitled to sick leave and are still paid or given free medical check-ups at Egyptian clinics. An analysis of a mummy of men showed that the man was fighting a bone marrow infection, a blood-borne infection.

Ancient Peru performed its first surgery

Ancient physicians in this country used a technique called trepanation - opening a hole in the skull of a living person by drilling, shaving or sawing to handle cases of head injury or some other disease. In 2004, anthropologists from Central Florida University discovered that the Chachapoya mage in Peru used the trepanation technique in the patient's lower leg at Kuelap Fortress - this is the first evidence to testify. Intelligent trepanation is applied to another part of the body. The Chachapoya region is about 800-1535 years BC and these magicians are skilled when performing complicated surgery on the head and legs. For a wound on a man's leg, drilling holes may help reduce fluid buildup from the wound.

Ancient doctors also treat PTSD

Studies by Anglia Ruskin University found evidence of doctors diagnosing and treating veterans from the Assyrian dynasty - people with sleep disorders, depression. The Assyrian dynasty forced people to be obliged to participate in combat every three years so they always had to be nervous when they witnessed life, death and severe wounds. This affects their morale and sleep, causing symptoms such as PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder or psychological post-traumatic stress) today. The treatment used for these patients may be medicines, religious rituals or demonic rites - believed to be the cause of PTSD.

Ancient medical text written on bamboo cards

An ancient medical document is recorded.

In the construction site in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province (China), workers discovered 920 bamboo cards used as written medical records dating back 2,000 years. These documents belong to Bian Quao - a pioneer in the health sector that focuses on diagnosing diseases by vascular arrest for patients. In China, Bian Quao is said to be a legend because he knew how to use the world's first anesthetic and organ transplants. 920 long bamboo consists of 184 strips of therapeutic notes for animals, 736 strips divided into 9 medical books for human healing. Methods such as surgery, dermatology, internal medicine, ophthalmology, trauma and gynecology.

Eye pain medicine is 2,000 years old

Archaeologists have discovered a chest containing medicine in a shipwreck in Rome, near Tuscany around 120 BC. This chest contains 136 bottles, wooden vials, a medicine box containing 2,000-year-old pills. These pills are round, green and completely dry. Researchers have used state-of-the-art technology to determine the composition of the drug, beeswax, starch, iron oxide, some zinc compounds, rosin and some other materials. Based on the composition and shape of the pill, researchers believe they are used as an antidepressant for ancient eyes.

The ancient rich are sick of modern poor people

Considered the 'first family' in Renaissance Italy, Medicis was a wealthy ruler of Tuscany. However, the children of this family suffer from rickets, a disease caused by poverty and lack of food in the modern era, especially in urban areas that are polluted, dark, and humid. However, the Medicis children have this disease while they eat foods such as cheese and eggs that provide vitamin D which is difficult to understand for researchers. After skeletal analysis of the child found that they were not weaned until 2 years of age and that in their breast milk, vitamin D deficiency was also found. As they grew up, the rules of the wealthy family also limited playing and running. outdoor dance.

Ancient people know about the benefits of goat milk before us today

Goat milk used in the treatment of orange blood by Hippocrates.

Today, cow's milk is sold everywhere and is trusted by parents for their children to supplement nutrients. But the use of goat milk has been Hippocrates 'father of medicine' used in the treatment of nosebleeds to snakebites. Queen Cleopaytra bathed in goat milk to keep the skin fresh and smooth.

Siberia is a center for complicated surgeries

Archaeologists were surprised to see that the ancient Siberian nomads created a center for performing cranial surgeries about 2,300 - 2,500 years ago. When archiving three skulls (two men, one woman) from the Altai Mountains, modern neurologists, archaeologists and anthropologists discover that ancient Siberian surgeons used Using tools to shave skulls with very sophisticated techniques. They also follow Hippocratic Corpus - a set of medical texts made in Greece in the middle of the sixth and fourth centuries BC.

A male patient with a head injury blood clot made doctors at that time use a trepanation method to drill the skull and this man lived many years later. Tools for drilling skulls were not found but archaeologists suspected that it was a bronze knife. Neurosurgeon Aleksei Krivoshapkin, who examined the skull, said: 'Amazingly, the Altai people of Hippocrates were able to diagnose and perform very accurate and effective trepanation procedures.' .