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Edwin smith papyrus bibliogrpahy1/17/2024 Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire,: Shire Publications, 1992. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. The Healing Hand: Man and Wounds in the Ancient World. Magical and Medical Papyri of the New Kingdom, Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum VIII. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1956. Essai sur la Médecine égyptienne de l'époque pharaonique. La Médecine égyptienne au temps des pharaons. Bruxelles: Fondation égyptologique reine Elisabeth, 1958. Les Médecins de l'Egypte pharaonique, Essai de prosographie, in La Médecine égyptienne no 3. Egészség és életmód az ókori Egyiptomban. Boca Raton, Florida: Universal Publishers, 2003. The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden. Cairo: Al‐Ahram Center for Scientific Translations, 1983. Grundriβ der Medizin der Alten Ägypter, I‐IX. The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt, Canton, Massachusetts: Science History Publications, 1993.Revised Edition. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1999.Įstes, J. Egyptian Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs. London: British Museum Press, 1993.Įbeid, N. Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.ĭavies, W. Les papyrus médicaux de l'Égypte pharaonique. One had to appease ( sḥtp) the appropriate god or exorcise the evil spirit or demon by religious or magical means and to fight the physical symptoms by the application of a remedy or physical treatment.Īs the Egyptian themselves summarised, “Magic is effective together with medicine. ![]() This meant that the curing process had to be directed both to the physical and the divine world. The other was of indirect origin, caused by a god or goddess who was malevolent or who punished the patient, or by a curse invoked by individuals. ![]() ![]() One was of direct origin, caused by an invisible pathogenic material personified, such as a disease‐demon, an evil spirit or an animal, or an object of the material world. According to their beliefs, each illness had two causes. In pharaonic time people saw their everyday life as a mixture of rational facts and supernatural phenomena, and the healing texts and the relating archaeological artefacts reflect a similar double‐sided medical attitude as well.
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