TY  - JOUR
T1  - ANcient egyptians and modern medicine
Y1  - 2011/04/20
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2011.430
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1602
EP  - 1602
VL  - 305
IS  - 15
N2  - 
When, in 1907, it was decided to increase the height of the great dam at Assuan, the Egyptian government sought to lessen, as far as possible, the destruction of the monuments and relics of ancient life on the Nile, by securing for scientific study as much as possible of the most valuable material which would be submerged by the rise of the waters. Numerous cemeteries on both banks of the river were explored, and no less than 6,000 bodies, representing burials during a period of 5,000 years, became available for study. Dr. Elliot Smith, professor of anatomy in the medical school at Cairo, who had already done much work with similar material, was in charge of the anthropological investigations, and largely because of his understanding of pathology the results as reported contain much of medical interest.1

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.430
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.430
ER  -