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By Carole Reeves
A concise background of the advance and perform of Egyptian drugs and its similar matters. It examines the photographs that are carved and painted at the partitions of tombs, represented in statues, within the hieroglyphs and within the papyri and gives and clarification of the categories of illustration which convey visible affliction and deformity. the appliance of contemporary clinical methodlogy to palaeopathology and palaeopidemiology has given Egyptologists and clinical historians a better figuring out of the interplay among human affliction and the modern atmosphere. an outline of contemporary medical reports is incorporated besides particular case stories detailing facts of affliction. The Egyptians knew and used not less than one-third of all of the medicinal vegetation indexed in sleek pharmacopoeias and the components and efficacy of the pharmacists' treatments are tested. a short review of the scientific papyri and scientific inscriptions is incorporated. those supply additional poignant insights into the Egyptian scientific practioner's figuring out of anatomy and body structure.
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Dantes Plads, DK-1550 Copenhagen V. Egypt Egyptian Antiquities Museum, Tahrir Square, Cairo. France Musee du Louvre, Palais du Louvre, F-75041 Paris. 70 Egyptian Medicine Germany Agvptisches Museum, Schlosstrasse 70. 1000 Berlin 19. Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum, Amsteiner 1,3200 Hildesheim. Holland Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rapenburg 28,2311 EW Leiden. Italy Musco Archeologico: Via della Colonna 96, Florence. United States of America The Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, NY 11238.
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