Author : Cornelius Stetter
Publisher : Quintessence Publishing (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History of Medicine, Ancient
ISBN : 9780867152654
Healing secrets from history's first physicians.
Author : Bruno Halioua
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674017023
Evidence of the medical practice of ancient Egypt has come down to us not only in pictorial art but also in papyrus scrolls, in funerary inscriptions, and in the mummified bodies of ancient Egyptians themselves. Halioua and Ziskind provide a comprehensive account of pharaonic medicine that is illuminated by what modern science has discovered about the lives (and deaths) of people from all walks of life.
Author : Nabil I. Ebeid
Publisher : General Egyptian Book Organization
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Author : James P. Allen
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art, Egyptian
ISBN : 1588391701
Diseases and injuries were major concerns for ancient Egyptians. This book, featuring some sixty-four objects from the Metropolitan Museum, discusses how both practical and magical medicine informed Egyptian art and for the first time reproduces and translates treatments described in the spectacular Edwin Smith Papyrus.
Author : Ray McAllister
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666722170
This book is a detailed theological analysis of blindness in the Hebrew Bible. It explores blindness in the context of religion, law codes, theodicy, social justice, and healing. McAllister first considers the wider context of ancient Near Eastern cultures before analyzing various words for blindness found in the Hebrew Bible. The focus then shifts to examining blindness in various blocks of material, in the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings, before synthesizing the findings. This book is excellent for scholars and students interested in better understanding disability in the context of the Bible and the ancient Near East.
Author : John F. Nunn
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806135045
The skills of the ancient Egyptians in preserving bodies through mummification are well known, but their expertise in the everyday medical practices needed to treat the living is less familiar and often misinterpreted. John F. Nunn draws on his own experience as an eminent doctor of medicine and an Egyptologist to reassess the evidence. He has translated and reviewed the original Egyptian medical papyri and has reconsidered other sources of information, including skeletons, mummies, statues, tomb paintings and coffins. Illustrations highlight symptoms of similar conditions in patients ancient and modern, and the criteria by which the Egyptian doctors made their diagnoses - many still valid today - are evaluated in the light of current medical knowledge. In addition, an appendix listing all known named doctors contains previously unpublished additions from newly translated texts. Spells and incantations and the relationship of magic and religion to medical practice are also explored. Incorporating the most recent insights of modern medicine and Egyptology, the result is the most comprehensive and authoritative general book to be published on this fascinating subject for many years.
Author : J. Worth Estes
Publisher : Science History Publications/USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Medical
ISBN :
A series of informal "snapshots" illustrating what can be inferred about Egyptians' illnesses and their treatments in the days of the Pharaohs. For a general audience. Paper edition (unseen), $10.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Charles Savona-Ventura
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2017-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 024433501X
The medicine of the ancient Egyptians is some of the oldest documented. From the beginnings of the civilization in the late fourth millennium BC until the Persian invasion of 525 BC, Egyptian medical practice went largely unchanged but was highly advanced for its time, including simple non-invasive surgery, setting of bones, dentistry, and an extensive set of pharmacopoeia. Egyptian medical thought influenced later traditions, including the Greeks. Until the 19th century, the main sources of information about ancient Egyptian medicine were writings from later in antiquity. The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practice. Pliny the Elder also wrote favourably of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the ""father of medicine""), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine.
Author : Martin Watt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1446490777
The story of frankincense and myrrh runs in tandem with man's evolution. Their use in so many varied ways has accompanied man and woman through the uncertain and often stormy path of life. Once prized as highly as gold, frankincense and myrrh's use in perfumery suggested an exclusivity as do the celebrated perfumes of today. But they offered much more than mere aesthetic delight. At times they were a life-line to spiritual and physical health and well-being. Over many centuries the use of frankincense and myrrh pervaded a wide range of societies and religions. The caravan trails for this valuable cargo have disappeared but these aromatics continue to be valuable commodities both in the East as well as in the West. Frankincense and Myrrh continue to excite the imagination and are probably the most famous aromatics of all time. Their appeal and magic will never die and this book explains why.
Author : Eugen Strouhal
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
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