Antiquity. Representation of Egyptians about a human body

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From the found and deciphered papyruses so a lot of telling to us about Egyptians, it is especially indicative for area interesting us ' the papyrus of Ebersa ' - from it it is visible, representations of Egyptians about a human body were how much incorrect. For example, heart they considered not only as the central body which leaves large blood vessels, but also as body through which takes place blood, slime, water, air and even urine. The action of the heart, its palpation in a breast obviously made extraordinary impression upon Egyptians.

Even they transferred the centre of thinking to heart while other east people already understood value of a brain. According to Egyptians, vessels leave heart necessarily in steams: pair to a breast, pair to feet, pair to a forehead and on steam to other parts of a body. In one papyrus it is underlined that these vessels eighteen, in other - forty. Egyptians Divided a body of the person into four parts: to one part, the head, a nape and a neck concerned another - shoulders and hands, to the third - a torso, to the fourth - feet.

They did not know anything About functions of bodies, besides, that it was possible to observe from the outside. To get inside they did not try. Egyptians saw that there is inhaled air - ' live air ' - and exhaled - ' dead air '. Saw that all is impregnated by a liquid, - each body, each particle of a body consisting, according to Egyptians, from meat and bones, from ' veins for air ' and ' veins for a liquid '. Arteries, in their opinion, spent air, veins - blood; after all at opening of corpses of an artery were empty also blood it was found out only in veins. Besides, Egyptians knew and about presence of the third, firm system of tubes - nerves. Thus, all three known to a natural science of Egyptians of elements - gaseous, liquid and firm - have been presented in a body structure. It suggested an idea them to identify a natural science with a live human body.

Such are representations about a human body of that epoch from which we were reached by the well-known parchments, - epoch of the Egyptian Average kingdom existing approximately for two thousand of years B.C.