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“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the ancient skeletons.” quote by James Henry Breasted — Download Open image

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

James Henry Breasted

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Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

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“Here we see the word "brain" occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in discussing injuries affecting the brain, we note the surgeon's effort to delimit his terms as he selects for specialization a series of common and current words to designate three degrees of injury to the skull indicated…

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The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

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“[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Crude and elementary as they are, the method by which they were collected was scientific, and these…

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“With the consolidation under Menes it was already an institution of great age, and over four centuries of development which then followed, had at the dawn of the Old Kingdom already brought to the office a prestige and an exalted power, demanding the deepest reverence of the subject whether high or low. Indeed the king was now officially a god,…

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“Not all the gods who appear in these tales and fancies became more than mythological figures. Many of them continued merely in this role,…

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“Keb and Nut were the father and mother of the four divinities, Osiris and Isis, Set and Nephthys; together they formed with their primeval father the sun-god, a circle of nine deities, the “ennead” of which each temple later possessed a local form. This correlation of the primitive divinities as father, mother and son, strongly influenced the theology of later…

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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

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

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