Sarah
Nov 15, 20213 min read
Safety first!
From a purely emotional point of view, one could certainly say from today's perspective that the topic of work safety was not exactly...
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Sarah
Nov 12, 20213 min read
Great Expectations?
When we imagine ancient Egyptian society with its administrators and kings of whom we know so much, we tend to overlook the "little...
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Sarah
Nov 1, 20213 min read
Without women and without wine, would Satan take us all in time
Who else but Goethe could have uttered such a meaningful sentence... However, history proves him right, for after all we know, wine as a...
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Sarah
Oct 26, 20214 min read
Protect your head!
By now we have gained a comprehensive picture of the thematic diversity that ancient Egyptian medicine has to offer. For me personally,...
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Sarah
Oct 26, 20214 min read
Oh, come, little children
Is it Christmas already? Not quite yet, we still have some days to go, and yet today we are devoting ourselves to a topic closely...
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Sarah
Oct 26, 20213 min read
Beastly good!
Medicine is not something that would only benefit humans. If you ask children (especially girls) what profession they want to have when...
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Sarah
Oct 26, 20214 min read
Egypt's Anatomy
Every physician today can tell you a thing or two about it: Without anatomy and knowledge about the structure of the body, there would be...
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Sarah
Oct 26, 20213 min read
A nose, my dear fellow, what a nose!
This is how Getafix speaks when, back in the Gaulish homeland, he recounts his experiences with Asterix in Egypt with Cleopatra (she is...
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Sarah
Oct 26, 20213 min read
Show your teeth!
Even before my "pharmacy career" and long before Egyptology, I was enrolled in dentistry for a few semesters. Blessed with insensitive...
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Sarah
Oct 26, 20213 min read
Jack-of-all-trades
In the blog post "She-Doctor?!" I reported that we only have more detailed information about the lives of very few ancient Egyptian...
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Sarah
Oct 25, 20214 min read
The Pestilence of the Year
Writing an article about epidemics in 2021 will probably only force a weary smile with most readers. After the unexpected revival of...
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Sarah
Oct 25, 20213 min read
You are what you eat
„Your food shall be your remedy.“ These words are (probably incorrectly) ascribed to the great ancient physician Hippocrates (around...
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Sarah
Oct 25, 20213 min read
Big toe
With some parts of the body you only notice that they are important when you no longer have them. This is especially true of the big toe....
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Sarah
Oct 25, 20213 min read
Horus on the Crocodiles
Egypt has always been a nerve-wracking place for people with a negligible love of reptiles. Scorpions, snakes, crocodiles ... all kinds...
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Sarah
Oct 25, 20213 min read
She-Doctor?!
In the middle of the 18th century (AD!) something hitherto unheard of happened in Germany: A woman, Dorothea Erxleben, received her...
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egyptsendlesselega
Jun 7, 20213 min read
Sleep well, baby
An article about opium poppy and opium in medical and pharmacological textbooks usually begins like this: "Even the Egyptians knew and...
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egyptsendlesselega
May 31, 20212 min read
Bad Hair Day?
Hair care was a big issue with the Egyptians. We know from paintings and statues that not only women, but also men wore complicated...
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egyptsendlesselega
May 6, 20212 min read
Physicians- Instruments of diplomacy?
The art of medicine would of course be worthless, if there was no one who practised it. While medical texts tell us nothing about the...
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