Oncology and Infectious Diseases in ancient Egypt
The Ebers Papyrus Treatise on Tumours 857-877 and the cases found in ancient Egyptian human material
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Product details:
- Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
- Date of Publication 1 January 2009
- ISBN 9783639166835
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages100 pages
- Size 220x150x5 mm
- Weight 152 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
This work focuses on pathogenic elements found in the
Ebers papyrus: a series of prescriptions that are
believed to be the remains of a book of tumours
which deals with what appear to have been benign
ganglionic masses, polyps, sebaceous cysts, varicose
veins and aneurysms. Discussion of this Treatise on
Tumours (paragraphs 857-877) includes the previous
probable identification of a disease, the analysis
carried out to date by several Egyptologists, and my
own interpretation which combines the linguistic
approach adopted by these scholars in the past, and
the medical observations of scientists in more recent
years: in total we have descriptions of neoplasias
versus swellings. This work also includes some
references to the plants mentioned as treatments for
the illnesses described in the 21 paragraphs of the
Papyrus last section on tumours (what it is now
thought to be oncological concerns) taking into
account the problem of translation, since some plants
are still unidentified today.References are made to
material evidence found in Egyptian mummies in
several sites revealing the presence of a tumour.
