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Laurelai  ·  4680 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Why didnt they have massive cases of schizophrenia in ancient egypt then?




thenewgreen  ·  4680 days ago  ·  link  ·  
    Written documents that identify Schizophrenia can be traced to the old Pharaonic Egypt, as far back as the second millennium before Christ. Depression, dementia, as well as thought disturbances that are typical in schizophrenia are described in detail in the Book of Hearts. The Heart and the mind seem to have been synonymous in ancient Egypt. The physical illnesses were regarded as symptoms of the heart and the uterus and originating from the blood vessels or from purulence, fecal matter, a poison or demons
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From The History of Schizophrenia link: http://www.schizophrenia.com/history.htm

Laurelai  ·  4680 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Interesting, the irony of course being that without cats they would have never developed into agrarian societies.
JakobVirgil  ·  4680 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I don't know about never there are terriers.
Laurelai  ·  4680 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Did ancient egypt have terriers?
JakobVirgil  ·  4680 days ago  ·  link  ·  
no but the Aztecs and Incas did not have cats no Felis catus in pre-columbian America. Dogs on the other hand are nearly ubiquitous with human settlement.
thenewgreen  ·  3596 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude, you still around? How are you JV?

thenewgreen  ·  4680 days ago  ·  link  ·  
thenewgreen  ·  4680 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Is this because the cats were able to ward of mice, rats etc?
Laurelai  ·  4680 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yes, they kept rodents out of grain, in fact i think this is how humans wound up domesticating them.
thenewgreen  ·  4680 days ago  ·  link  ·  
makes sense. thanks for info.