I-em-hotep and Ancient Egyptian medicine: Prevention of valvular disease: The Harveian Oration delivered before the Royal college of physicians on June 21, 1904
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I-em-hotep and Ancient Egyptian medicine - Richard Caton
Richard Caton
I-em-hotep and Ancient Egyptian medicine: Prevention of valvular disease
The Harveian Oration delivered before the Royal college of physicians on June 21, 1904
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4066338075451
Table of Contents
I Egypt and the Earliest Researches on the Circulation
The Medicine God I-em-hotep
Testimonies as to I-em-hotep
Necropsies made by the Egyptian Priests
References to the Circulation in the Medical Papyri
Importance of the Medicine and Sanitation of Ancient Egypt
Methods Employed by the Egyptian Physicians
II A Suggestion in Regard to Preventive Treatment of Valvular Disease
Joints recover: Why does the Endocardium fail to do so?
The Rheumatic Joint rests, but not the Rheumatic Heart
Disastrous results of Valvulitis if not specially treated
The work of the Rheumatic Heart must for a time be minimised
Two Objections to the Proposed Method
Successful Results obtained
I
Egypt and the Earliest Researches on the Circulation
Table of Contents
To all who love our venerable and beneficent profession the spectacle of our predecessors in early ages striving in darkness and difficulty to acquire that hidden knowledge to which we have partially attained is interesting and should awaken our sympathy. As was remarked by the learned Harveian Orator of 1896: ‘The past is worth our study and ever more so the further we advance.’[1]
The information which archaeological research has of late afforded, though in a fitful and partial manner, as to the earliest history of medicine, and particularly in regard to that department in which our founder laboured, is not unworthy of our attention.
The first evidence of definite inquiry, in any degree worthy to be called scientific by a body of men specially educated for, and devoting their lives to medical service, occurs in the early history of Egypt. The ability, learning, and artistic skill shown during the early dynasties, which all Egyptologists recognize, are paralleled by the remarkable interest then manifested in medicine. Works on anatomy and medicine are stated to have been written even by the early sovereigns of Egypt. Athothis, the son of Menes, who lived six thousand years ago,[2] is stated in the Berlin papyrus to have written a book on