Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs

Bruno Halioua

Bernard Ziskind

Translated by M. B. DeBevoise

Foreword by Donald Redford

    Foreword by Donald B. Redford

    Translator's Note

    Introduction

    Part I. The World of the Physician

    1. The Medical Profession

    2. Medical Training and Practice

    Part II. Revelations of Paleopathology

    3. Mummification

    4. The Modern Study of Mummies

    Part III. From Cradle to Grave

    5. Mothers and Children

    6. Childhood and Adolescence

    7. Old Age and Deformities

    Part IV. Professional Risks

    8. Fishermen and Farmers

    9. Construction Workers, Miners, Soldiers

    10. Bakers, Priests, Scribes, Embalmers, Prostitutes

    Epilogue: The Transmission of Egyptian Medical Knowledge

    Primary Sources for Egyptian Medicine

    Interpreting the Ten Plagues of Egypt

    Chronology of Ancient Egypt

    Notes

    Works Cited

    Illustration Credits

    Acknowledgments

    Index

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Bruno Halioua is a dermatologist and former Chief of Medicine at the University of Paris Medical School.

Bernard Ziskind is a cardiologist and senior intern at the Hôpitaux de Paris and a member of the French Society for the History of Medicine.