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The Quick And The Dead
Andrew Andrew Hunt Gordon
其他書名
Biomedical Theory In Ancient Egypt
出版BRILL, 2004
主題History / Ancient / GeneralArchitecture / Interior Design / GeneralMedical / History
ISBN97890041239159004123911
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1LbGCVlFtA4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This volume uses a cross-disciplinary approach to examine the origins of ancient Egyptian medicine in the domestication, care and sacrifice of cattle. Ritual cattle sacrifice in Egypt led to a rudimentary understanding of animal anatomy and physiology, which was then applied to humans. Two original theories developed from this comparative medicine: Life as movement, especially seen in the fasciolations of excised limbs, and the male's role in reproduction. Discussions include Egypt as a cattle culture, the "ka" as an animating force, "living flesh," the possible animal origins of the "ankh," "djed" and "was" hieroglyphs, the bull's foreleg and the Opening-of-the-Mouth ritual, Egypt's healing establishment, and veterinary medicine as it relates to the origin of human medicine.