The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus / published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary in two volumes by James Henry Breasted.
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| Language: | English Egyptian |
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Birmingham, Ala. :
Classics of Medicine Library,
[1984], ©1984.
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MSU: Gift of Larry S. Lewis, M.D.
MSU: This is copy number 1264 of a limited edition of 7,500 copies. |
| Physical Description: | xxiv, 596 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 introductory booklet (21 pages) |
| Format: | Book |
| Note: | Privately printed for members of the Classics of Medicine Library. This edition contains the whole of volume 1 ("Hieroglyphic transliterations, translation and commentary"), together with a sample page, in reduced form, from vol. 2. The papyrus is named after Edwin Smith, who purchased the document in January 1862 during his stay at Thebes. After his death in 1906 it was presented to the New York Historical Society. cf. General introduction. Limited edition bound in full leather. Facsimile. Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1930. |
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| Call Number: | PJ1681 .S6 1984 XX folio |