“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“the first physician who is known to have counted the pulse, Herophilos of Alexandria (born 300 B.C.), lived in Egypt.” — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“The main weapons in the prevention and treatment of disease and human carelessness will probably always be food and exercise.” — Dr. Blake F. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal.” — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists that the smell of herbs alarms the Devil and… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Here we see the word "brain" occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us;… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
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