Egypt
- Book Review (catalogue): The Art Of Medicine
Art Museum Journal Allen, James P., et al. The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. With photos. Ancient Egyptians preserved one's ka (life force) after death through mummification. They were...
- Improvements For Sca Employees
drhawass.com For the first time in the history of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) a medical insurance plan has been established for its employees. I was very proud to announce that the plan will be put into effect in January 2011. This insurance...
- The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
Thanks to the Resource Shelf blog for the information that the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus is now available online at the Turning the Pages Online website, from where you can load the virtual papyrus, or you can link to it directly by clicking here (it...
- The Art Of Medicine In Ancient Egypt: An Account By Orac
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2005/11/the_art_of_medi_1.htmlThe writer is particularly interested in the Edwin Smith medical papyrus: "This papyrus was named after the American Egyptologist who purchased it in Luxor in 1862 and brought it back to...
- Medical Papyrus On Show For The First Time
http://tinyurl.com/cavrm As part of the exhbition "The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt" that opened last week in New York, a valuable papyrus has gone on display: "The ancient Egyptians left proof of their scientific prowess for people to marvel at for...
Egypt
Doctor helps to translate Egyptian treatise
NECN.com
A few decades ago, a glance at an ancient medical text alerted Dr. Gonzalo M. Sanchez to something he found fascinating. Medical professionals, he discovered, had been scrutinizing patients and drawing well-reasoned conclusions about them for a long, long time.
The text he saw is a revered Egyptian treatise on trauma from about the 17th century B.C. — and much of its content might be even older than that.
"I was blown away," he said. "It was telling me exactly the same thing to look for that I was going down to the Bellevue Hospital Emergency Room and seeing."
That was in 1965, when Sanchez was in his first year of neurosurgical training at the New York University Medical Center. It began an odyssey that would lead Sanchez to become part of that ancient medical treatise's long and complex story. By this summer, a new translation of the treatise by Sanchez and Edmund S. Meltzer is scheduled for publication with Lockwood Press. The work is called "The Edwin Smith Papyrus: Updated Translation of the Trauma Treatise and Modern Medical Commentaries."
- Book Review (catalogue): The Art Of Medicine
Art Museum Journal Allen, James P., et al. The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. With photos. Ancient Egyptians preserved one's ka (life force) after death through mummification. They were...
- Improvements For Sca Employees
drhawass.com For the first time in the history of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) a medical insurance plan has been established for its employees. I was very proud to announce that the plan will be put into effect in January 2011. This insurance...
- The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
Thanks to the Resource Shelf blog for the information that the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus is now available online at the Turning the Pages Online website, from where you can load the virtual papyrus, or you can link to it directly by clicking here (it...
- The Art Of Medicine In Ancient Egypt: An Account By Orac
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2005/11/the_art_of_medi_1.htmlThe writer is particularly interested in the Edwin Smith medical papyrus: "This papyrus was named after the American Egyptologist who purchased it in Luxor in 1862 and brought it back to...
- Medical Papyrus On Show For The First Time
http://tinyurl.com/cavrm As part of the exhbition "The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt" that opened last week in New York, a valuable papyrus has gone on display: "The ancient Egyptians left proof of their scientific prowess for people to marvel at for...