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In the seventeenth century bce, an Egyptian papyrus listed many diagnoses of head and neck injuries and their treatment and is the "first known document in which the brain's role in controlling limbs or organs at a considerable distance is established" (Changeux 1983:4; Breasted 1930).
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Xenophon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Born in Athens between 431 and 427 BCE, at the start of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (431 to 404 BCE), Xenophon lived a life as tumultuous and full of contrast as his written works.
Having grown up during the most flagrant excesses of the Athenian democracy, he was an admirer of Sparta and a critic of rule by the demos.
Written around 380 BCE, while the author was living in exile in the western Peloponnesus, the account is forty years removed from the event it immortalizes; Xenophon is presenting a child's perspective on conviviality.
www.litdict.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4824   (683 words)

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