L'Eunuque dans l'Egypte pharaonique.

Jonckheere, Frans

doi:10.3406/rhs.1954.3406

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“…Hematuria, mentioned 50 times, is likely related to schistosoma, whose eggs have been discovered in mummies [11]. Hematuria was said to be painful in some instances and painless in others.…”

Section: The Kidney: Where Does It Stand?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The expulsion of calculi (ourmyt) is said to be associated with dysuria and hematuria or (âaâ) [4,5]. Actually, (âaâ) is a mysterious entity which, according to Jonckheere [11] is characterized by abdominal distension, pain, escape, of the heart or palpitations, and blood-stained evacuations (urine and/or stools). Its exact nature is debatable.…”

Section: The Kidney: Where Does It Stand?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The role of the sounou was to eject the intruders with incantations, spells and drugs. He was expected to provide protection from the evil external forces that caused disease, as well as control over the natural internal ones [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Health was considered the balance between equal forces: Good and Evil, Gods and Demons, Life and Death.…”

Section: Caregivers Physicians and The Sounou (Swnw)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Practically speaking, the main role of the sounou was to rid the body from noxious materials and influences, the major representative of which was the 'whdw' (ukhedu) or morbus peccans (morbid matter) [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Extrusion of the evil ukhedu would expectedly be through the all too natural exit route: the anus (phwyt), which acquired a significant standing in matters of health and purging became a principal component of therapy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Unfortunately, many medical papyri are lost or else not yet found. Written over a period of 800 years, extant manuscripts add up to a little less than 200 translated and printed pages [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15].…”

Section: Medical Papyrimentioning

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The Kidney in Ancient Egyptian Medicine: Where Does It Stand?

Salem

Eknoyan

1999

Am J Nephrol

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Driven by their deep-seated desire for eternal life in a healthy body, ancient Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to begin collecting and recording medical lore and medicinals that were effective for a healthy body. With its religious origins, medical care was initially provided by priests, but evolved over time into an independent discipline practiced by the swnw (sounou) or physician. What has been preserved of their knowledge in extant medical papyri reflects the great capacity of Egyptians for practical achievement in treating symptoms, but lacks the abstract thought that was to come with the advent of the more rational Greek medicine. The number of prescriptions and incantations for the management of urinary disorders (hematuria, retention, frequency, infection) and dropsy that are mentioned in extant medical papyri likely reflect the frequency with which these problems were encountered. Urine was thought to be formed in the region of the bladder, by a process considered akin to purification. Available studies on preserved mummies indicate that kidney disease was not uncommon. Whether a functional role of the kidney was appreciated at all is highly doubtful. On the other hand, the available evidence suggests an awareness of the kidney (ggt) to which was ascribed a mythological role that may well account for why the kidneys and the heart were the only organs not removed during the process of mummification.

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The Kidney in Ancient Egyptian Medicine: Where Does It Stand?

Salem

Eknoyan

1999

Am J Nephrol

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عدم المساواة بین الجنسین فى مصر القدیمة

محمود¹

2021

مجلة کلیة السیاحة والفنادق - جامعة مدینة السادات

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This article was concerned with displaying the inequality practised in the ancient Egyptian society according to the gender of its members. Though Egyptian culture was way ahead of its time when it came to female rights , it still made a clear differentiation based on birth gender favouring in many cases males over females and marginalising people of intermediate gender. For example there was a bigger percentage of educated males than females. Although females held a limited number of medical and scribal positions, the whole administration of the country was male dominated. On the other hand women practised equal legal rights when it comes to marriage, divorce and representing themselves in courts. Roles of third gender were not emphasised in funerary sources probably due to the ancient Egyptian beliefs about cosmology.

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The castrated gods and their castration cults: Revenge, punishment, and spiritual supremacy

2019

IJTS

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Voluntary castration has existed as a religious practice up to the present day, openly in India and secretively in other parts of the world. Gods in a number of different cultures were castrated, a mutilation that paradoxically tended to increase rather than diminish their powers. This cross-cultural examination of the eunuch gods examines the meaning associated with divine emasculation in Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece, the Roman Empire, India, and northern Europe to the degree that these meanings can be read from the wording of myths, early accounts, and the castration cults for some of these gods. Three distinct patterns of godly castration emerge: divine dynastic conflicts involving castration; a powerful goddess paired with a weaker male devotee castrated because of his relationship with her; and magus gods whose castration demonstrates their superiority. Castration cults associated with some of these gods—and other gods whose sexuality was ambiguous, such as Jesus—some of them existing up to the present day, illuminate the spiritual powers associated with castration for gods and mortals.

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L'Eunuque dans l'Egypte pharaonique.

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The Kidney in Ancient Egyptian Medicine: Where Does It Stand?

The Kidney in Ancient Egyptian Medicine: Where Does It Stand?

عدم المساواة بین الجنسین فى مصر القدیمة

The castrated gods and their castration cults: Revenge, punishment, and spiritual supremacy

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