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...
- The Art Of Medicine In Ancient Egypt
Science Blogs The Egyptian exhibit was far more modest in scale, being contained in one relatively small gallery. However, to me, it was probably more interesting because of the centerpiece of the exhibit, the Edwin Smith Papyrus. This papyrus was named...
- 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...
- The Art Of Medicine In Ancient Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/953g5 From September 15th to January 15th: " he causes of illnesses were little understood in ancient Egypt, and their prevention and cure was a major concern for most Egyptians—one that informs much of ancient Egyptian art but has...
- The Art Of Medicine In Ancient Egypt (u.s. Exhibition)
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={B83F9585-FEAA-496C-9BCC-4644839921BC Planning a trip to New York later in the year, I was having a look around to see if any Egyptology exhibitions are running or going to run, and I found this...
Egypt
Medical Papyrus on show for the first time
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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 millennia. Their engineering skills can still be seen at Giza, their star charts in Luxor, their care for head wounds on Fifth Avenue. A 4,000-year-old scroll includes descriptions of basic surgery and treatment of brain injuries. Head wounds? Yes, and the ancients treated broken arms, cuts, even facial wrinkles - vanity is not a modern invention - and they used methods as advanced as rudimentary surgery and a sort of proto-antibiotics. As for Fifth Avenue, it, like the Valley of the Kings, is a place of hidden treasures. What researchers call the world's oldest known medical treatise, an Egyptian papyrus offering 4,000-year-old wisdom, has long dwelled in the rare books vault at the New York Academy of Medicine".
- 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...
- The Art Of Medicine In Ancient Egypt
Science Blogs The Egyptian exhibit was far more modest in scale, being contained in one relatively small gallery. However, to me, it was probably more interesting because of the centerpiece of the exhibit, the Edwin Smith Papyrus. This papyrus was named...
- 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...
- The Art Of Medicine In Ancient Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/953g5 From September 15th to January 15th: " he causes of illnesses were little understood in ancient Egypt, and their prevention and cure was a major concern for most Egyptians—one that informs much of ancient Egyptian art but has...
- The Art Of Medicine In Ancient Egypt (u.s. Exhibition)
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={B83F9585-FEAA-496C-9BCC-4644839921BC Planning a trip to New York later in the year, I was having a look around to see if any Egyptology exhibitions are running or going to run, and I found this...