Ebers Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian medical book from 1500 BC included a prescription for pink eye "apply the urine of a faithful wife".....
"To cure baldness, doctors applied 'a mixture of six fats...the horse, the hippopotamus, the crocodile, the cat, the snake, and the [wild goat.]' All that grease grew few hairs, but at least it shined the hairless dome.
To splinters, the ancient Egyptian doctors applied a salve of worm blood and donkey dung. Since dung is loaded with tetanus spores, a simple splinter often resulted in a gruesome death from lockjaw. Until the 1800s, however, most doctors thought pus promoted healing. Thus doctors infected wounds to get them to produce pus. They agreed with the Ebers Papyrus: 'It is good for a wound to rot a little...Therefore, put something in the wound that will [make it produce pus]'
In the ancient world, well-meaning doctors killed millions by deliberately infecting their wounds.
Moses lived in Egypt while the Egyptian doctors were writing this medical text. Raised in the royal court, he "was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians" (Acts 7.22)...Moses had been steeped in these infection-spreading practices....Yet Moses recorded an unlikely promise to the ancient Hebrews:
"If you give careful attention to the voice of the Lord your God, do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments, and keep ALL His statutes, I will put NONE OF THESE DISEASES upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who HEALS you" (Exodus 15:26).
~None of These Diseases, McMillian and Stern.
God really wants us to be healthy!!! We must be careful - if we are going to claim His promises then we also need to accept the conditions associated with those promises!!!
Leviticus 26:3-13 3‘IF you walk in My laws and guard My commands, and shall do them,
4THEN I shall give you rain in its season, and the land shall yield its crops, and the trees of the field yield their fruit.
5‘And your threshing shall last till the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last till the time of sowing. And you shall eat your bread until you have enough, and shall dwell in your land safely.
6‘And I shall give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and no one make you afraid. And I shall clear the land of evil beasts, and not let the sword go through your land.
7‘And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.
8‘And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you pursue ten thousand. And your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.
9‘And I shall turn to you and make you bear fruit, and shall increase you, and shall establish My covenant with you.
10‘And you shall eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new.
11‘And I shall set My Dwelling Place in your midst, and My being shall not reject you.
12‘And I shall walk in your midst, and shall be your Elohim, and you shall be My people.
13‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.
The Scripture is filled with God's conditional promises - IF....THEN statements ..and just in case you were wondering,, here is the flip side of that conditional promise as well:
Leviticus 26:14-33 "BUT IF you do not obey Me, and do not do all these commands,
15and if you reject My laws, or if your being loathes My right-rulings, so that you do not do all My commands, but break My covenant,
16I ALSO DO THIS TO YOU: And I shall appoint sudden alarm over you, wasting disease and inflammation, destroying the eyes, and consuming the life. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17‘And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies. And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
18‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins.
19‘And I shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20‘And your strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21‘And if you walk contrary to Me, and refuse to obey Me, I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins,
22and send wild beasts among you, which shall bereave you of your children. And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in number, and your highways shall be deserted.
23‘And if you are not instructed by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me,
24then I also shall walk contrary to you, and I Myself shall smite you seven times for your sins.
25‘And I shall bring against you a sword executing the vengeance of My covenant, and you shall gather together in your cities, and I shall send pestilence among you, and you shall be given into the hand of the enemy.
26‘When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27‘And if in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28then I shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I Myself shall punish you seven times for your sins.
29‘And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters.
30‘And I shall destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you.
31‘And I shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances.
32‘And I shall lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33‘And I shall scatter you among the gentiles and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins,"
"To cure baldness, doctors applied 'a mixture of six fats...the horse, the hippopotamus, the crocodile, the cat, the snake, and the [wild goat.]' All that grease grew few hairs, but at least it shined the hairless dome.
To splinters, the ancient Egyptian doctors applied a salve of worm blood and donkey dung. Since dung is loaded with tetanus spores, a simple splinter often resulted in a gruesome death from lockjaw. Until the 1800s, however, most doctors thought pus promoted healing. Thus doctors infected wounds to get them to produce pus. They agreed with the Ebers Papyrus: 'It is good for a wound to rot a little...Therefore, put something in the wound that will [make it produce pus]'
In the ancient world, well-meaning doctors killed millions by deliberately infecting their wounds.
Moses lived in Egypt while the Egyptian doctors were writing this medical text. Raised in the royal court, he "was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians" (Acts 7.22)...Moses had been steeped in these infection-spreading practices....Yet Moses recorded an unlikely promise to the ancient Hebrews:
"If you give careful attention to the voice of the Lord your God, do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments, and keep ALL His statutes, I will put NONE OF THESE DISEASES upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who HEALS you" (Exodus 15:26).
~None of These Diseases, McMillian and Stern.
God really wants us to be healthy!!! We must be careful - if we are going to claim His promises then we also need to accept the conditions associated with those promises!!!
Leviticus 26:3-13 3‘IF you walk in My laws and guard My commands, and shall do them,
4THEN I shall give you rain in its season, and the land shall yield its crops, and the trees of the field yield their fruit.
5‘And your threshing shall last till the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last till the time of sowing. And you shall eat your bread until you have enough, and shall dwell in your land safely.
6‘And I shall give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and no one make you afraid. And I shall clear the land of evil beasts, and not let the sword go through your land.
7‘And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.
8‘And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you pursue ten thousand. And your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.
9‘And I shall turn to you and make you bear fruit, and shall increase you, and shall establish My covenant with you.
10‘And you shall eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new.
11‘And I shall set My Dwelling Place in your midst, and My being shall not reject you.
12‘And I shall walk in your midst, and shall be your Elohim, and you shall be My people.
13‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.
The Scripture is filled with God's conditional promises - IF....THEN statements ..and just in case you were wondering,, here is the flip side of that conditional promise as well:
Leviticus 26:14-33 "BUT IF you do not obey Me, and do not do all these commands,
15and if you reject My laws, or if your being loathes My right-rulings, so that you do not do all My commands, but break My covenant,
16I ALSO DO THIS TO YOU: And I shall appoint sudden alarm over you, wasting disease and inflammation, destroying the eyes, and consuming the life. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17‘And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies. And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
18‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins.
19‘And I shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20‘And your strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21‘And if you walk contrary to Me, and refuse to obey Me, I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins,
22and send wild beasts among you, which shall bereave you of your children. And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in number, and your highways shall be deserted.
23‘And if you are not instructed by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me,
24then I also shall walk contrary to you, and I Myself shall smite you seven times for your sins.
25‘And I shall bring against you a sword executing the vengeance of My covenant, and you shall gather together in your cities, and I shall send pestilence among you, and you shall be given into the hand of the enemy.
26‘When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27‘And if in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28then I shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I Myself shall punish you seven times for your sins.
29‘And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters.
30‘And I shall destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you.
31‘And I shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances.
32‘And I shall lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33‘And I shall scatter you among the gentiles and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins,"