Nurse*
Patient **
You are an assistant to the great doctor Imhotep, doctor to
King Zoser, the Pharaoh of Egypt. He uses a combination of
practical herbal remedies and prayers to the gods because he
believes the gods will intervene and cure your patients.
All Egyptian doctors know human anatomy because the body is
cut up when it is mummified and the organs are stored in
canopic jars. They don’t know much about what the organs do
(physiology) because you aren’t allowed to cut them open and
look inside in case they don’t work in the afterlife.
Costume: something white and pleated if you can manage it.
Outrageous black eyeliner and an Egyptian wig
Props: pot of slime or gunk from a joke shop. Transfer it into
an old pottery jar.
You have come to the great doctor Imhotep, doctor to King
Zoser, the Pharaoh of Egypt because you have a terrible
headache. Imhotep uses a combination of practical herbal
remedies and prayers to the gods because he believes the
gods will intervene and cure you.
All Egyptian doctors know human anatomy because the body
is cut up when it is mummified and the organs are stored in
canopic jars. They don’t know much about what the organs do
(physiology) because you aren’t allowed to cut them open and
look inside in case they are damaged and don’t work in the
afterlife.
Costume: something white and pleated if you can manage it.
Outrageous black eyeliner and an Egyptian wig
Hipppocrates**
Asclepios**
You are the most famous of all Greek doctors. You don’t
believe that the gods have anything to do with healing people.
Illness is natural, it comes from within the body and so you
observe and record the patient’s symptoms and treat them
with herbal remedies and exercise. You write all your
treatments down and they are gathered together in The
Hippocratic Corpus which is used by doctors until the Middle
Ages.
Props: a big book called The Hippocratic Corpus
Costume: a white sheet and sandals
You are the Greek god of healing and people flock to your
temples in Cos and Epidaurus to beg you to cure them. With
your daughters, Hygeia and Panacea, you treat patients with
a mixture of herbal remedies and supernatural prayers. You
use snakes in healing rituals; modern doctors’ surgeries often
decorate their buildings with a snakes which is a symbol of
healing.
Props: a snake, perhaps a stuffed toy or a draught excluder
Costume: a white sheet and sandals