Country in Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia

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Bani Suef, Egypt: a midife holding a kulleh (pottery water jar) at the naming ceremony of a baby. Photograph by W.S. Blackman, 192-.

A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.

Egypt: a street with a man smoking and riding a camel. Chromolithograph after C. F. H. Werner, 1873.

Men and women are prisoners in cells, one man is being tortured by having the soles of his feet beaten with a stick. Wood engraving after G. Durand.

Papyros Ebers : das hermetische Buch über die Arzeneimittel der alten Ägypter in hieratischer Schrift / herausgegeben mit Inhaltsangabe und Einleitung versehen von Georg Ebers. Mit hieroglyphisch-lateinischem Glossar, von Ludwig Stern. Mit Unterstützung des Königlich Sächsischen Cultusministerium.

Annual report on the ophthalmic section.

Studies in palaeopathology : Note on a tumour of the pelvis dating from Roman times (250 A.D.), and found in Egypt / by Marc Armand Ruffer and J. Graham Willmore.

Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827 / [Richard Robert Madden].

Observations on the manners and customs of the Egyptians, the overflowing of the Nile and its effects / with remarks on the plague, and other subjects. By John Antes.

The miracles of St. Artemios : a collection of miracle stories by an anonymous author of seventh century Byzantium / by Virgil S. Crisafulli and John W. Nesbitt ; translated by Virgil S. Crisafulli, with an introduction by John W. Nesbitt and commentary by Virgil S. Crisafulli and John W. Nesbitt ; supplemented by a reprinted Greek text and an essay by John F. Haldon.

Centenaire de la Faculté de médecine du Caire et Congrès international de médecine tropicale et d'hygiène : Le Caire (Egypte) du 15 au 22 déc. 1928 programme définitif.

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Centenaire de la Faculté de médecine du Caire et Congrès international de médecine tropicale et d'hygiène : Le Caire (Egypte) du 15 au 22 déc. 1928 programme définitif.