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The Quick and the Dead - Biomedical Theory in Ancient Egypt

English · Hardback

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This volume uses a cross-disciplinary approach to examine the origins of ancient Egyptian medicine in the domestication, care and sacrifice of cattle. Ritual cattle sacrifice in Egypt led to a rudimentary understanding of animal anatomy and physiology, which was then applied to humans. Two original theories developed from this comparative medicine: Life as movement, especially seen in the fasciolations of excised limbs, and the male's role in reproduction. Discussions include Egypt as a cattle culture, the "ka as an animating force, "living flesh," the possible animal origins of the "ankh, "djed and "was hieroglyphs, the bull's foreleg and the Opening-of-the-Mouth ritual, Egypt's healing establishment, and veterinary medicine as it relates to the origin of human medicine.

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Authors Andrew Gordon, Calvin Schwabe
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 29.11.2004
 
EAN 9789004123915
ISBN 978-90-04-12391-5
No. of pages 236
Dimensions 166 mm x 246 mm x 18 mm
Weight 744 g
Series Egyptological Memoirs
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity

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