“[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Crude and elementary as they are, the method by which they were collected was scientific, and these observations, together with the diagnoses and the explanatory commentary in the ancient glosses, form the oldest body of science now extant.”
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The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
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James Henry Breasted
James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist renowned for his research on ancient Egypt. Born on August 27, 1865, and passing away on December 2, 1935, Breasted made significant contributions to the field of archaeology, particularly in the study of ancient Egyptian civilization. more
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