Recent molecular analysis of pathogenic bacterial DNA recovered from a dental abscess in
the mummified head of a woman more than sixty years old, buried in K95 in Dra Abu el …

376 CILA UDIUS F. MAYER that is foreign, or a wholesale warfare and crusade against
whatever seems to be undesirable or non-national at a period. Such barriers not only isolate …

In our western world there is a childlike tendency to believe almost anything about the
abilities of the ancients. It is widely believed that ancient Egyptian grain-the so-called …

This article presents a brief survey of infectious diseases in ancient Egypt and the ancient
physician's response to them. Paleopathology—the study of ancient diseases—is a …

FORUM the bleeding stopped, she died. Hippocrates also described the occurrence of
phumata sclera (hard tumours) in breasts, which he claimed could turn into karkinoi kruptoi …

When we turn to the fertile plains north of the Persian Gulf, we find that the origin of Assyrian
Medicine is lost in a remote antiquity, and when we first become acquainted with it, we dis …

Hundreds of life-size human limbs made from terracotta, including the remains of at least
125 human hands, testify to the efficacy of the medicine practiced at the Aklepieion, on the …

Ancient Egypt was one of the greatest civilizations to have arisen, becoming the cradle of
scientific enquiry and social development over 3 millennia; undoubtedly its knowledge of …

Arabic Medicine played a very important role in the Arabic-Islamic culture which flourished in
an area extending from Spain in the west to the borders of India in the east. From the eighth …

Among the Geniza writings preserved in Cambridge University Library's Taylor-Schechter
Collection is a medieval Arabic medical certificate which has not hitherto been published or …