Science and secrets of early medicine : Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Mexico, Peru / Jürgen Thorwald, translated by Richard and Clara Winston.

A pictorial history and in essence, medical archaeology, by the author of The Century of the Surgeon. In Egypt, the Ebers Papyrus (not later than 2100 B.C.) is actually a first textbook; there too, where they tried to cure, they also perfected the art of embalming and from the buried evidence many o...

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Main Author:	Thorwald, Jürgen
Other Authors:	Winston, Clara (Translator), Winston, Richard (Translator)
Other title:	Macht und Geheimnis der frühen Ärzte. English
Format:	Book
Language:	English German
Published:	New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1963, ©1962]
Edition:	[1st American ed.]
Subjects:	Medicine, Ancient. Paleopathology. History, Ancient.