““There is no force in the life of ancient man, the influence of which so pervades all his activities as does that of the religious faculty. Its fancies explain for him the world about him, its fears are his hourly master, its hopes his constant Mentor, its feasts are his calendar, and its outward usages are to a large extent the education and the motive toward the gradual evolution of art, literature and science.””
![“[...] 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…” quote by James Henry Breasted](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/139/james-henry-breasted-20001_anatomy_we-have-in-our-treatise-a-series-of-fift_513370.jpg)
![“[...] 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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e76/james-henry-breasted-20001_anatomy_the-success-of-egyptian-surgery-in-setti_688974.jpg)
