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Medicine, Ancient

Images

  • Estrucan bronze model of liver
  • El-Lazien in situ: clamp used during Kordajan circumcision. Anglo Egyptian, Sudan.
  • Eight ancient Roman surgical instruments. Watercolour, 1850/1910.
  • M0014665: Cylinder seal and sketch depicting Nergal, Mesopotamian God of plague and pestilence, c.1800 B.C.
  • Roman altar with Greek inscription found at Chester in 1851
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Catalogue

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    M0008992: Egyptian papyrus circa 1000 B.C.

    | Date: 14 February 1944 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/78/94
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    Proposals for printing a medicinal dictionary : designed as a body of physic and surgery both with regard to theory and practice. Compiled from the best writers ancient and modern: with useful observations. Illustrated with copper plates. / By R. James, M.D.

    James, R. (Robert), 1703?-1776 | Date: [1741]
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    Assyrian seal

    • Books

    Perplexing remedies in ancient medicine : Dreckapotheke in Mesopotamia and the Graeco-Roman world / Maddalena Rumor.

    Rumor, Maddalena | Date: [2025]
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    Médecine et médecins au Proche-Orient ancien : actes du colloque international organisé à Lyon les 8 et 9 novembre 2002, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée / textes réunis par Laura Battini et Pierre Villard.

    | Date: 2006
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