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The rise and decline of surgery in dynastic Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. Thompson Rowling
J. Thompson Rowling*
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Thanatos House, 14 Rutland Park, Sheffield S10 2PB
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The Egyptian mammified bodies and the Egyptian texts between them offer a unique insight into the medical skills of an early civilization. Here the evidence for surgery is surveyed, and a pattern of rise and decline identified in its accomplishment.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 239 , June 1989 , pp. 312 - 319
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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