The Edwin Smith Papyrus - Updated Translation of the Trauma Treatise and Modern Medical Commentaries (Hardcover, New)

Includes 42 figures and a 'Visual Index' of 8 illustrations, many in colour. This volume contains the original hieratic text, complete transcription into hieroglyphs, transliteration, English translation, philological apparatus and copiously illustrated medical commentaries for the 48 clinical cases of the Edwin Smith Papyrus, as well as extensive bibliographical resources, and a lucid introduction exploring the importance of the document, the history of previous scholarship, and distinctive aspects of the current edition. It offers an authoritative treatment of the Egyptian text, which clarifies the meaning of many passages from the papyrus and points the way to their correct medical interpretation. The Edwin Smith Papyrus is the first comprehensive trauma treatise in the history of medicine. Not only is the ESP the source of numerous anatomical and functional concepts of the nervous system, it is the basis for the development of modern objective clinical thinking, establishing the foundations of modern medicine more than a thousand years before Hippocrates. The volume features an impressive array of medical material that reveals the precise conditions described by the ancient physician and explores the Egyptian contribution to modern diagnostics, clinical practice, and methodology. This publication sets the standard in the presentation of ancient medical documents. It also includes the previously unpublished translation of the papyrus by Edwin Smith himself.

General

Imprint:	Lockwood Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	October 2012
Authors:	Gonzalo M. Sanchez • Edmund S. Meltzer
Dimensions:	280 x 215 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-937040-01-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Middle & Near Eastern archaeology > Egyptian archaeology
LSN:	1-937040-01-1
Barcode:	9781937040017

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