The treatment that ancient Egyptian physicians would most likely have prescribed to prevent the scrape from becoming infected is applying honey to the scrape. Honey was known for its antibacterial properties and was commonly used in ancient medicine for wound care.
If an ancient Egyptian warrior sustained a scrape trom an enemy arrow passing close by him, what treatment would the physicians MOST likely have prescribed to prevent the scrape from becoming infected?
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• applying honey to the scrape
attaching leeches to bleed the
scrape
amputating the arm that was scraped
using hot iron to burn the scrape closed
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