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	Edwin Smith papyrus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Edwin Smith papyrus was written and edited in Ancient Egypt by at least three different authors, the last of which stopped mid-word.
		The Edwin Smith papyrus contains careful descriptions of the injuries as well as the first descriptions of the cranial sutures, the meninges, the external surface of the brain, the cerebrospinal fluid, and the intracranial pulsations.
		Edwin Smith was an Egyptologist born in 1822, the year that Egyptian hieroglyphs were first deciphered.
	edwin-smith-papyrus.iqnaut.net (379 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Medicine - Smith Papyrus - Ebers Papyrus
		The Papyrus of Edwin Smith deals extensively with bruises of the vertebra, dislocation of the jaws, various fractures (of the clavicle, humerus, ribs, nose and cranium.
		It is unclear from whom the papyrus was purchased, but it was said to have been found between the legs of a mummy in the Assassif district of the Theben necropolis.
		The papyrus is dated to this period by a note on the recto which states the date as being the 29th year of the reign of Amenenhat III (c.
	www.crystalinks.com /egyptmedicine.html (3607 words)

	Cyber Museum of Neurosurgery
		The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, dating from the seventeenth century B.C., is one of the oldest of all known medical papyri.
		According to Breasted, the Edwin Smith Papyrus is a copy of an ancient composite manuscript which contained, in addition to the original author's text (3000-2500 B.C.), a commentary added a few hundred years later in the form of 69 explanatory notes (glosses).
		Of the 48 cases described in the Edwin Smith Papyrus, 27 concern head trauma and 6 deal with spine trauma.3 Of the 27 head injuries, 4 are deep scalp wounds exposing the skull, and 11 are skull fractures.
	www.neurosurgery.org /cybermuseum/pre20th/epapyrus.html (2601 words)

	sBMJ \| Surgery on papyrus
		Edwin Smith, an american egyptologist went to Luxor and bought an ancient roll of manuscript that was found in a tomb.
		Edwin Smith's papyrus still amazes the world with its clarity and diagnostic accuracy; its secrets are being rediscovered every day.
		Edwin Smith surgical papyrus: the oldest known surgical treatise.
	www.studentbmj.com /issues/04/09/life/338.php (1184 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ebers papyrus
		The Ebers papyrus was purchased at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873–74 by Georg Ebers and is now in the library of the University of Leipzig, Germany.
		It is unclear from whom the papyrus was purchased, but it was said to have been found between the legs of a mummy in the Assassif district of the Theban necropolis.
		The Papyrus was purchased in 1872 by the German Egyptologist and novelist Georg Ebers (born in Berlin, 1837), for whom it is named.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ebers_papyrus (559 words)

	Terry's Egyptian Page - The Smith Surgical Papyrus
		This is an excerpt from The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus (papyri are named for their discovers or first purchasers of note; Edwin Smith purchased the papyrus in Luxor in 1862, but did not write it!).
		The Smith Surgical Papyrus is unique among Egyptian medical texts, and in fact unique in the ancient world until the anatomical studies of the Greeks 2000 years later.
		The cases discussed in the Smith Papyrus begin with a description of the major symptoms of the injury, usually in red ink, followed by tips for refining the diagnosis.
	wesheb.tdonnelly.org /esmith.html (1236 words)

	"The Edwin Smith Papyrus" by Edward Willett
		It’s not that it’s a new discovery: it was purchased by Connecticut-born Egyptologist Edwin Smith in Luxor, Egypt, in 1862.
		In the Edwin Smith papyrus, cases are classified as favorable, uncertain, or "an ailment not to be treated." The latter concept is not found in any other Egyptian medical document.
		The Edwin Smith papyrus also contains the first descriptions of the cranial sutures (those squiggly cracks in a skull where the various plates of bone join together), the meninges (the lining of the brain), the surface of the brain, cerebrospinal fluid, surgical stitching, and various types of dressings.
	www.edwardwillett.com /Columns/edwinsmithpapyrus.htm (827 words)

	TRAUMA.ORG: History of Trauma: Trauma in Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Wounds of the head, neck, shoulders and chest were described in the "Edwin Smith Papyrus", held at the New York Academy of Sciences.
		The Edwin Smith Papyrus is the oldest known text referring to treatments of injuries.
		The papyrus is 5 meters long, and is chiefly concerned with surgery.
	www.trauma.org /history/egypt.html (824 words)

	Conservative Care: Edwin Smith
		Edwin Smith, was an Egyptologist who was born in Connecticut, United States in 1822.
		The existing text is believed to have been something which was recopied by a scribe in about 1,700 B.C. The Edwin Smith documents are remarkable in many ways including their lucidity regarding real medical situations which are presented as 48 systematically arranged case histories beginning with head injuries and then proceeding down the spine.
		The Edwin Smith papyri also document the first application of the principle of "triage" in that, in each case, a definitive treatment decision was made using well-stated criteria and followed by the determination:
	www.burtonreport.com /InfSpine/ConservEdwinSmith.htm (306 words)

	The Edwin Smith Papyrus: the birth of analytical thinking in medicine and otolaryngology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Edwin Smith Papyrus, discovered in 1862 outside of Luxor, Egypt, is the oldest known surgical text in the history of civilization.
		It is believed that the ancient Greeks had knowledge of the contents of the Edwin Smith Papyrus and its teachings and used them as the basis for their writings.
		It is the rational, logical, and advanced thinking exhibited in the Edwin Smith Papyrus that mandates its respect from modern otolaryngologists and all physicians alike.
	www.egeinfonet.i8.com /news/2006/mar/3.html (369 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Medical Papyri
		Smith's activity in Egypt is somewhat of a mystery, being described as an adventurer, a money-lender and a dealer in antiques.
		This papyrus is said to date from 1550 BC and was taken from the tomb of a physician.
		The papyrus is 110 pages and dates back to 1534 BC to the reign of Amenhotep I. This document has a more haphazard order than the Smith papyrus and unlike that document it deals with remedies only of the skin, belly and other parts of the body.
	indigo.ie /~marrya/papyri.html (1365 words)

	Raceandhistory.com - Egypt the Cradle of the Neurosciences
		Edwin Smith, of Connecticut, had acquired the papyrus in Luxor in 1862.
		Smith knew enough hieratic (form of ancient Egyptian language) to recognize the papyrus's character as a medical treatise.
		In the papyrus, each case is discussed in the following manner: first comes the title; second, the examination; third, the diagnosis (verdicts or prognosis accompany the diagnosis and are labeled favorable or unfavorable, and a decision is issued on whether to proceed with treatment); fourth, treatment; finally, any necessary glosses.
	www.raceandhistory.com /historicalviews/neurosciences.htm (897 words)

	The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus is, without a doubt, one if the most important documents pertaining to medicine in the ...
		The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus is, without a doubt, one if the most important documents pertaining to medicine in the ancien
		The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus may be the single most important document pertaining to medicine in the ancient
		Smith also had the reputation of advising upon, and even practicing, the forgery of antiquities.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/pwagner/EUH2000-2377-S06/Edwin_Smith_Page.htm (213 words)

	The Edwin Smith Papyrus - Medgadget - www.medgadget.com
		The earliest known historical text on surgery is the Edwin Smith papyrus.
		The practical material in the Edwin Smith papyrus stands in stark contrast to the magical incantations in another celebrated Egyptian medical text, the Ebers Papyrus.
		The Edwin Papyrus is currently housed in the New York Academy of Medicine.
	www.medgadget.com /archives/2005/07/the_edwin_smith.html (727 words)

	Neuroscience for Kids - Ancient "Brain"
		Nevertheless, the ancient Egyptians are responsible for the oldest written record using the word "brain" and have provided the first written accounts of the anatomy of the brain, the meninges (coverings of the brain) and cerebrospinal fluid.
		The papyrus is a description of 48 cases that were written by an Egyptian surgeon thousands of years ago.
		The surgical papyrus is named after Edwin Smith, an American Egyptologist who was born in 1822 and died in 1906.
	faculty.washington.edu /chudler/papy.html (1460 words)

	The Asclepion
		With the advent of increasingly sophisticated medical techniques at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as those complex medical techniques in use today, the analysis of Egypt's veritable wealth of human remains provided a tremendous boost to the study of the state of disease and health in the ancient Nile Valley.
		Smith has also been reputed as advising upon, and even practicing, the forgery of antiquities.(Nunn 1996:26) Whatever his personal composition, it is to his credit that he immediately recognized the text for what it was and later carried out a tentative translation.
		The exact meaning of metu is confusing and could be alternatively translated as either mean hollow vessels or muscles tissue.(Ibid.:52) The papyrus continues by featuring diseases of the tongue (paragraphs 697-704), dermatological conditions (paragraphs 708-721), dental conditions (paragraphs 739-750), diseases of the ear, nose, and throat (paragraphs 761-781), and gynecological conditions (paragraphs 783-839).
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/consortium/demandegyptmed.html (2676 words)

	Egypt Science and Medicine 2 - Crystalinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The two Most important ones, the so-called Smith and Ebers papyri, date from the seventeenth and sixteenth centuries B.C. The Smith one is of the same age as the Rhind mathematical papyrus.
		We shall begin with the younger one, the Ebers papyrus, because it is by far the largest (almost five times as large as the Smith) and was the best known until very recent times.
		The Ebers papyrus is a roll 20.23 m long and 30 cm high; the text is distributed in 108 columns of 20 to 22 lines each.
	www.crystalinks.com /egyptscience2.html (1853 words)

	Oriental Institute Publications (OIP3)
		The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Volume 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation, and Commentary.
		Edwin Smith, a man of great intellectual gifts, purchased what is now known as the Edwin Smith Surgical papyrus.
		Volume 2 contains collotype facsimiles of the Papyrus, which originally was in a continuous roll but for the sake of convenience has now been cut into columns of text.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/DEPT/PUB/CATALOG/OIP3.html (228 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt
		Papyrus and ink; H. 33 cm (13 in.), L. 4.68 m (15 ft. 3 1/2 in.)
		The Edwin Smith Papyrus is named after its original owner, Edwin Smith, an American Egyptologist (1822–1906) who purchased it in Luxor in 1862.
		On the basis of the handwriting, it has been dated to about 1600 B.C., but on the basis of language (and errors in transcription), the work is believed to be a copy of another text that was written some three centuries earlier.
	www.metmuseum.org /special/Art_Medicine_Egypt/view_1.asp?item=0 (193 words)

	Edwin Smith : Sirchin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Edwin Smith (Medal of Honor) (1841–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient...
		brought this manuscript to light, Edwin Smith, was born in Connecticut in 1822,...
		This extraordinary papyrus, bought in 1862 by the American Egyptologist Edwin Smith in Luxor, Egypt, is an ancient Egyptian surgical treatise.
	www.sirchin.com /?topic:edwin-smith (341 words)

	Medicine in ancient Egypt
		The Edwin Smith Papyrus is 5 meters long (seventeen pages (377 lines) on the recto and five pages (92 lines) on the verso), and is chiefly concerned with surgery.
		This papyrus was purchased by Edwin Smith (an American residing in Cairo, who was a dealer of antiquities) from Mustafa Agha in 1862.
		The Edwin Smith Papyrus - Egyptian Orthopedic Assoc.
	www.s2ortho.com /z-knowledge/pharaonic/medicine_in_ancient_egypt-e.htm (591 words)

	BREAST CANCER
		In conclusion therefore, to quote the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus as evidence for breast cancer is inaccurate and misleading.
		The papyrus is a 110-page scroll containing magical formulas and folk remedies meant to cure all kinds of intestinal diseases and parasites, eye and skin problems, contraception, diagnosis of pregnancy and other gynaecological matters, dentistry, and the surgical treatment of abscesses, bone-setting and burns.
		The 'Berlin Papyrus' is another writing that describes conditions suffered by women and their treatment and includes, it is believed, the earliest known pregnancy test of "barley and emmer".
	teklinepublishing.com /bc-egypt.htm (3307 words)

	Egyptian Medicine - Medical Discoveries
		The Edwin Smith Papyrus is 5 meters long, and is chiefly concerned with surgery.
		The Edwin Smith Papyrus shows the suturing of non-infected wounds with a needle and thread.
		The surgical treatment of abscesses or cysts was described in the Ebers Papyrus.
	www.kingtutshop.com /freeinfo/Medicine3.htm (806 words)

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		The Edwin Smith Papyrus is the oldest medical treatise in existence, and it is believed to have been written in the Eighteenth Dynasty (ca.
		The Edwin Smith Papyrus was published in 1930 by James Henry Breasted, who had spent ten years translating the document.
		This papyrus is also of great importance because of its use of the word "brain" and references to the neurological relationship between the brain (spinal cord and nervous system) and the body.
	mason.gmu.edu /~mcrawfo1/health.html (1005 words)

	The Ambassadors (Jan 2005) - SELECTED STUDIES - The Unveiled Ebers Papyrus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Ebers Papyrus, the most recent of the three texts, was purchased in Luxor by Edwin Smith in 1862 under the pretext that the papyrus was said to have been found between the legs of a mummy in the Assassif area of the necropolis of Thebes on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor.
		Elliot Smith, in the introduction of Bryan's book stated, "Dr. Cyril Bryan is to be commended for giving us in English, an interpretation based upon Dr. Joachim's translation though not slavishly following it." The next major development was a translation into English by Dr. Ebbell in 1937.
		Judging from the descriptors in the Edwin Smith Papyrus, the artifact appears to belong to a surgeon.
	ambassadors.net /archives/issue17/selectedstudy4.htm (819 words)

	Edwin Smith ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Smith's passion for paper inspires her creative approaches to printmaking and reinforces the importance of this aspect of her work.
		Quick-to-See Smith was born in 1940 on the Indian Mission Flathead Reservation in Montana.
		This is a downtown show, said Sanford Smith, with a mix of emerging and established dealers that appeals to both younger and seasoned...
	wwar.com /masters/s/smith-edwin.html (1394 words)

	papyrus.html
		Sometimes they take the form of recognizable symptoms such as an obstruction, but often may be a specific disease term such as wekhedu or aaa, the meaning of both of which remain quite obscure.
		Paragraphs 188-207 comprise "the book of the stomach," and show a marked change in style to something which is closer to the Edwin Smith Papyrus.
		Only paragraph 188 has a title, though all of the paragraphs include the phrase: "if you examine a man with a…," a characteristic which denotes its similarity to the Edwin Smith Papyrus.
	www.osirisweb.com /egypt/papyrus.htm (2772 words)

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