the first physician who is known to have counted the…

“The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels or abdomen.…

— James Henry Breasted

“Here we see the word "brain" occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in…

— James Henry Breasted

“When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal.”

— James Henry Breasted

“We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of smell to…

— Suzy Kassem

The physician who killed me, Neither bled, purge or pilled me, Nor counted my pulse but it comes to the same, In the height…

— Nicarchus

“The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the side of…

— James Henry Breasted

“the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos.”

— James Henry Breasted

“Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the…

— James Henry Breasted

“Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just…

— James Henry Breasted

“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the…

— James Henry Breasted

“[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations…

— James Henry Breasted

“Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists that the smell of herbs alarms the Devil and that medicine…

— James Henry Breasted

“The main weapons in the prevention and treatment of disease and human carelessness will probably always be food and exercise.”

— Dr. Blake F. Donaldson

“Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point? Constancy isn't.”

— Jonathan Gash

“We cannot fathom technology that is unknown to us, and we seldom consider things that seem impossible to us.”

— Christopher Dunn