Egyptian medicine and the gods

The author deals with the following subjects, quoting the appropriate texts. Deities and the human body: Ancient Egyptian perceptions of the body, and the anatomical lists; the goddess Nut and the nightly voyage of the sun. Deities who caused illnesses: Egyptian perceptions of the causation of illness by illness-spirits and symptom-demons; the deities Sakhmet, Isis and Seth. Protective and healing deities: the deities of pregnancy and childbirth; the major healing deities. Deities and therapeutics (sanatoria within temples). It is concluded that the practice of healing was intimately linked to religious beliefs and practices, prayer, magic spells and rituals playing a vital role. (OEB)