Turning the Pages of Medical History
"Among the most beautiful and sought after objects of antiquity are the books and manuscripts created hundreds of years ago, and carefully preserved in libraries."For those of us unable, or unwilling to wait to travel to the British Library or the National Library of Medicine; a handful of exquisite classics from the historical biomedical literature may now be explored virtually!
Click on the post title to begin your journey by scrolling through The Edwin Smith Papyrus,
"the world’s oldest surviving surgical text,..written in Egyptian hieratic script around the 17th century BCE, but probably based on material from a thousand years earlier. The papyrus is a textbook on trauma surgery, and describes anatomical observations and the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of numerous injuries in exquisite detail."
Labels: British Library, classical medical literature, Edwin Smith papyrus, medical history, National Library of Medicine, Turning the Pages
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