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BREASTED, James Henry

The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus: Published in Facsimile and Hieroglyphic Transliteration with Translation and Commentary

Chicago
University of Chicago Press
1930

€100 - €160

2 vol., vol. 1: hieroglyphic transliteration, translation and commentary. 4to, xxiv + 596 pp, 8 plates. vol. 2: folio, facsimile plates and line for line hieroglyphic transliteration. xiii pages, 22 (folding) plates. Buckram bindings

The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian medical text, named after the dealer who bought it in 1862, and the oldest known surgical treatise on trauma. This document, which may have been a manual of military surgery, describes 48 cases of injuries, fractures, wounds, dislocations and tumors. The Edwin Smith Papyrus presents a rational and scientific approach to medicine in ancient Egypt

Medicine