Details
•Title: Medicine In Ancient Egypt
•Year: 1957
•Print size (inches): 13.5 x 16.5 (large)
•Image size (inches): 10 x 13
•Print size (cm): 34.2 x 42 (large)
•Image size (cm): 25.5 x 32.5
•Provenance: A History Of Medicine In Pictures, Director George Bender - Artist Robert Thom
•Verso: No printing
•Publisher: Parke, Davis, and Company
Description
This large colorful print is comes from a series of print collections about medicine published in 1957 (stated on insert). This one shows an Egyptian physician treating a lockjaw patient from the Edwin Smith papyrus scroll directions in 1500 BC.
The separate accompanying text insert describes what is happening in the painting as well as an in depth look into Egyptian medicine.
The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an Ancient Egyptian medical text, named after the dealer who bought it in 1862, and the oldest known surgical treatise on trauma. This document, which may have been a manual of military surgery, describes 48 cases of injuries, fractures, wounds, dislocations and tumors. It dates to Dynasties 16–17 of the Second Intermediate Period in Ancient Egypt, ca. 1500 BCE. The Edwin Smith papyrus is unique among the four principal medical papyri in existence that survive today. While other papyri, such as the Ebers Papyrus and London Medical Papyrus, are medical texts based in magic, the Edwin Smith Papyrus presents a rational and scientific approach to medicine in Ancient Egypt, in which medicine and magic do not conflict. Magic would be more prevalent had the cases of illness been mysterious, such as internal disease.
IC07
•Title: Medicine In Ancient Egypt
•Year: 1957
•Print size (inches): 13.5 x 16.5 (large)
•Image size (inches): 10 x 13
•Print size (cm): 34.2 x 42 (large)
•Image size (cm): 25.5 x 32.5
•Provenance: A History Of Medicine In Pictures, Director George Bender - Artist Robert Thom
•Verso: No printing
•Publisher: Parke, Davis, and Company
Description
This large colorful print is comes from a series of print collections about medicine published in 1957 (stated on insert). This one shows an Egyptian physician treating a lockjaw patient from the Edwin Smith papyrus scroll directions in 1500 BC.
The separate accompanying text insert describes what is happening in the painting as well as an in depth look into Egyptian medicine.
The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an Ancient Egyptian medical text, named after the dealer who bought it in 1862, and the oldest known surgical treatise on trauma. This document, which may have been a manual of military surgery, describes 48 cases of injuries, fractures, wounds, dislocations and tumors. It dates to Dynasties 16–17 of the Second Intermediate Period in Ancient Egypt, ca. 1500 BCE. The Edwin Smith papyrus is unique among the four principal medical papyri in existence that survive today. While other papyri, such as the Ebers Papyrus and London Medical Papyrus, are medical texts based in magic, the Edwin Smith Papyrus presents a rational and scientific approach to medicine in Ancient Egypt, in which medicine and magic do not conflict. Magic would be more prevalent had the cases of illness been mysterious, such as internal disease.
IC07
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