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A comprehensive overview of the extent of medical knowledge possessed and practiced by the ancient Egyptians.
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La médecine au temps des pharaons
November 8, 2013, Liana Levi
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Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs
April 15, 2005, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, Brand: Belknap Press
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Table of Contents
Forward by Donald B. Redford
Page vii
Translator's Note
Page ix
Introduction
Page 1
Part I.
The Word of the Physician
Chapter 1.
The Medical Profession
Page 7
Chapter 2.
Training and Practice
Page 23
Part II.
Revelations of Paleopathology
Chapter 3.
Mummification
Page 43
Chapter 4.
The Modern Study of Mummies
Page 53
Part III.
From Cradle to Grave
Chapter 5.
Mothers and Children
Page 69
Chapter 6.
Childhood and Adolescence
Page 82
Chapter 7.
Old Age and Deformities
Page 95
Part IV.
Professional Risks
Chapter 8.
Fishermen and Farmers
Page 115
Chapter 9.
Construction Workers, Miners, Soldiers
Page 128
Chapter 10.
Bakers, Priests, Scribes, Embalmers, Prostitutes
Page 158
Epilogue.
Transmission of Egyptian Medical Knowledge
Page 179
Endmatter
Primary Sources for Egyptian Medicine
Page 189
Interpreting the Ten Plagues of Egypt
Page 197
Chronology of Ancient Egypt
Page 205
Notes
Page 209
Works Cited
Page 239
Illustration Credits
Page 257
Acknowledgements
Page 261
Index
Page 263
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