“The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels or abdomen. Our surgeon, however, has observed the fact that injuries to the brain affect other parts of… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
“[...] 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 Copy Share
“With the consolidation under Menes it was already an institution of great age, and over four centuries of development which then followed, had at… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
“Not all the gods who appear in these tales and fancies became more than mythological figures. Many of them continued merely in this role,… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
“Keb and Nut were the father and mother of the four divinities, Osiris and Isis, Set and Nephthys; together they formed with their primeval… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
“[...] 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 Copy Share
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
“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
“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 Copy Share
Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
