Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the human heart are observed.
James Henry BreastedTags: biology anatomy pulse human-heart ancient-egypt hieroglyphic ancient-medicine philology medical-history
[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Crude and elementary as they are, the method by which they were collected was scientific, and these observations, together with the diagnoses and the explanatory commentary in the ancient glosses, form the oldest body of science now extant.
James Henry BreastedTags: biology anatomy ancient-egypt hieroglyphic ancient-medicine medical-history
The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the side of the body nervously affected, is in itself evidence that in this case the ancient surgeon was already beginning observations on the localization of functions in the brain.
James Henry BreastedTags: biology brain neuroscience anatomy injuries ancient-egypt hieroglyphic ancient-medicine medical-history
Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: "If thou examinest a man having a wound in the temple, ...; if thou ask of him concerning his malady and he speak not to thee; ...; thou shouldst say concerning him, 'One having a wound in his temple, ... (and) he is speechless'.
James Henry BreastedTags: speech brain neuroscience anatomy ancient-egypt hieroglyphic disorders ancient-medicine medical-history frontal-lobe speech-pathology
[...] 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 BreastedTags: biology anatomy archaeology ancient-egypt fractures skeletons ancient-medicine broken-bones medical-history
When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal.
James Henry BreastedTags: anatomy ancient-egypt diagnosis ancient-egyptians ancient-medicine broken-bones medical-history
It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard the legend that the Venetians were half human, half beast.She knew that this could not be true, but in the swirling fog of this hellish city she almost believed it. The creatures seemed to stare at her down their warped noses from their blank and hollow eyes. And overlord of all was the winged lion - he was everywhere, watching from every plaque or pennant, ubiquitous and threatening.
Marina FioratoTags: architecture bubonic-plague venice historical-romance-fiction medical-history
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