Anatomy Quote by 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

“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

“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

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose…

— James Henry Breasted

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached…

— Lewis Thomas

“the first physician who is known to have counted the pulse, Herophilos of Alexandria (born 300 B.C.), lived in Egypt.”

— James Henry Breasted

“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

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

— 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

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

— Rodney Dangerfield

“[...] 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

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among…

— Tom Chatfield

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

— Dr. Blake F. Donaldson