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107 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470] · Africa & Middle East [Z01.058.500]

1930

#12366

Le cœur dans les textes égyptiens depuis l'ancien jusqu'à la fin du nouvel Empire.

1934

#3094

Sternal puncture; preliminary note.

Needle for sternal puncture.

1935

#8318

Hieratic papyri in the British Museum: Third series: Chester Beatty gift. Edited by Alan H. Gardiner. 2 vols.

Reproduces, with transcription, the Chester Beatty medical papyrus. See No. 5.

1935

#8403

Ueber die anatomischen kenntnisse der altägyptischen ärzte. Morgenland; Darstellungen aus Geschichte und Kultur des Ostens., Hft. 26.

1944

#8470

Une maladie Égyptienne: l'hématurie parasitaire.

1947

#5

Le papyrus médical Chester Beatty, par le Dr. Frans Jonckheere.

A hieratic papyrus of the 13th-12th century BCE. It is a fragment of a monograph on diseases of the anus. The papyrus was reproduced with transcription by A. H. Gardiner in 1935. See No. 8318.

1951 –1961

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.

1951

#7164

Der Arzneikunde der Kopten.

1952

#6471.1

The old Egyptian medical papyri.

A guide to the chief medical papyri, with particular attention to therapeutics.

1954 –1973

#6471.2

Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter. 9 vols in 11.

Vol. 1. H. Grapow, Anatomie und Physiologie (1954) Vol. 2. H. Grapow, Von den medizinischen Texten (1955) Vol. 3. H. Grapow, Kraner, Krankheiten und Arzt (1956) Vol. 4.1. H. von Dienes, H. Grapow, W. Westendorf, Ubers…

1954

#8469

Prescriptions médicales sur ostraca hiératiques.

1954

#9879

"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.

Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.

1958

#10257

Les médecins de l'Égypte pharaonique, essai de prosopographie.

1959

#10753

Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.

A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…

1963

#8320

Magic and medical science in ancient Egypt.

1967

#8490

Index of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy at the National Library of Cairo.

1977

#1092.54

Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.

Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.

1983

#8316

The physicians of pharaonic Egypt. (Deutsches Archäologisches Instutut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschrift 10).

1983

#10630

Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.

"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practition…

1984

#8460

Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridwan's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt". Translated and introduced by Michael W. Dols, with Arabic text by Adil S. Gamal.

1987

#8315

The Ebers papyrus: A new English translation, commentaries and glossary by Paul Ghalioungui.

1988

#13810

La médecine égyptienne au temps des Pharaons.

1989

#8471

An ancient Egyptian herbal.

1991 –2007

#7415

A history of medicine. 6 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…

1993

#10578

Bibliographie raisonnée des témoignages oculaires imprimes de l'Expédition d'Égypte (1798-1801).

A bibliography of publications, including those on medical subjects, issued from the Imprimerie national in Cairo established by Napoleon during the campaign, and also publications issued from Paris documenting inform…

1994

#8267

Medicine and hygiene in the works of Flavius Josephus.

1994

#8281

L'ophtalmologie dans l'Egypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraires grecs.

1995

#8505

Illness and health care in the ancient Near East: The role of the temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel. Harvard Semitic Monographs, no. 54.

1996

#8319

Ancient Egyptian medicine.

This is the best comparatively brief, but sufficiently detailed, survey in English.

1996

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1997

#8273

Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.

1998

#8283

La chirurgie dans l'Égypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraire grecs.

1999

#7083

Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin. 2 vols.

1999

#12516

The diffusion of Greco-Roman medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus. Edited by J.A.C. Greppin, E. Savage-Smith, and J. L. Gueriguian.

2000

#10000

Die Heilkunde in alten Aegypten (Sudhoffs Archiv Beiheft 42).

Covers both magic and empirical treatment, with a particular focus on the treatment of diseases studied on the basis of texts, including the preparation of medicines.

2001

#10695

Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.

2003

#8506

Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.

The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…

2004

#8312

Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.

The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…

2004

#8321

Eros on the Nile. Translated from the Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer.

Originally published by Eros nad Nilem (Prószyyńki i S-ka S.A, 1998).

2006

#8285

Médecins et malades de l'Egypte romaine: Étude socio-légale de la profession médicale et de ses praticiens du Ier au IVe siècle ap. J.-C.

2007

#9737

Das Handbuch Muššuɔu "Einreibung". Eine Serie sumerische und akkadischer Beschwörungen aus dem 1. Jt. vor Chr.

Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.

2007

#12307

Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft: Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten.

2009

#8293

The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo.

"...the first detailed analysis of an immensely popular 13th c. Arabic guide for pharmacists, from a time in which Jewish physicians and pharmacists worked alongside Muslim and Christian practioners. Minhāj al-dukkān …

2009

#10001

Health and medicine in ancient Egypt. Magic and science (British Archaeological Reports [BAR] International Series 1967).

Detailed study of documentation (papyri, ostraca and mummies) followed by a list of pathologies by types and some considerations on medicines and their materia medica.

2011

#12056

La Campagne d’Egypte: Une affaire de santé.

2012

#8402

La chirurgie en Égypte ancienne. À propos des instruments médico-chirurgicaux métalliques égyptiens conserves au musée du Louvre.

2012

#10876

Severe respiratory illness associated with a novel coronavirus - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012.

Reports on the first two patients affected by a "new" coronavirus. The first patient, hospitalized in June 2012, died, and the other was in both pulmonary and renal failure. In this paper the CDC referenced a website …

2012

#10877

Brief Report: Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.

This paper, dated November 8, 2012, characterized the virus up to and including its genome sequence, including radiology and imaging findings, lab findings, diagnosis and management. The authors tentatively named the …

2012

#11048

Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.

2012

#12054

La littérature médicale de la compagne d'Égypte.

Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.