It’s kind of interesting because in most cases the recommended remedies for various issues like that were bonkers. But sometimes they’d manage to arrive at a kind of correct answer through trial and error, and would just come up with an explanation for why it worked that made sense to them. Trepanation for example. It can release pressure on the brain in some cases and thus is a valid treatment for certain brain injuries or conditions, but ancient Egyptians who used it obviously didn’t have access to something like an mri, so they figured that they were just letting evil spirits out.
It’s kind of interesting because in most cases the recommended remedies for various issues like that were bonkers. But sometimes they’d manage to arrive at a kind of correct answer through trial and error, and would just come up with an explanation for why it worked that made sense to them. Trepanation for example. It can release pressure on the brain in some cases and thus is a valid treatment for certain brain injuries or conditions, but ancient Egyptians who used it obviously didn’t have access to something like an mri, so they figured that they were just letting evil spirits out.