ABSTRACT
The special treatment of the viscera acquainted the Egyptian physicians with the appearance and position of the organs and enabled them to recognize the homologies between the internal organs of the human body and those of animals. The Egyptian conception of the dynamics of the human physiology is complicated and confusing because of the belief that it was governed by a number of deities and it was assumed that there are other spiritual forces controlling it. All human physiology in ancient Egypt depended mostly on natural powers. The Egyptians had a curious knowledge concerning the uterus. The organs of reproduction were believed to be a separate entity independent of the other organs and subject to wandering about the pelvic cavity. The internal organs were known to the Egyptian physicians, their sites, and, to some extent, their functions and their illnesses as described in the papyri.
