Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
University of Chicago Press (1930), Edition: First edition., 634 pages
Description
The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus is one of the most important documents in the history of science, and one of the oldest known scientific treatises surviving from ancient Egypt. It includes, for example, an early word for "brain", and the surgeon repeatedly, because of his scientific interest in the observable facts, discusses cases of injured men whom he has no hope of saving. Volume 1 contains a historical introduction to the document, followed by translation and commentary. Volume 2 contains collotype facsimiles of the Papyrus, which originally was in a continuous roll but has now been cut into columns of text.
Language
Original language
English
ISBN
0226620980 / 9780226620985
Local notes
MJW
- signed by author & his son:
"To
Dr. Edward L. Compere
with all good wishes
James H. Breasted
and
Charles Breasted
Chicago.
Oct. 13. 1931"
- also bookplate of "Edward Lyon Compere, M.D."
See companion oversize volume.
- signed by author & his son:
"To
Dr. Edward L. Compere
with all good wishes
James H. Breasted
and
Charles Breasted
Chicago.
Oct. 13. 1931"
- also bookplate of "Edward Lyon Compere, M.D."
See companion oversize volume.