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The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 2: Facsimile Plates and Line for Line Hieroglyphic Transliteration The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 2: Facsimile Plates and Line for Line Hieroglyphic Transliteration by James Henry Breasted
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“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the ancient skeletons.”
― James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, 2 Vols
tags: anatomy, ancient-egypt, ancient-medicine, archaeology, biology, broken-bones, fractures, medical-history, skeletons
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