A class given by Muirenn ingen Morgair at War of the Trillium, A.S. 50
Egypt, Greece, and the Classical Tradition of Medicine In Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
Illness was seen as a manifestation of a god’s anger or possession by demons or ghosts, as shown by the Ebers and Hearst papyri. The goal of the healer was to appease the god through sacrifices or drive out the possessing demon by applying or getting the patient to ingest substances which the demon found repugnant (like feces).
