The Harveian oration : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians on June 21, 1904 / by Richard Caton.

  • Richard Caton
Date:
1904
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Credit: The Harveian oration : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians on June 21, 1904 / by Richard Caton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From the colonnade a door marked e on the plan (Plate IV) leads into a square courtyard, the north side of which, marked ad in the plan, is formed by the fafade of the temple proper. Here some of the hieroglyphs refer to I-em-hotep and his work (Plate VI). In the centre of this fa9ade a door marked f leads into the larger anterior chamber of the temple. From this the door g communicates with the inner sanctuary. The eastern wall of the courtyard has a curious elongated recess, many yards in length but only a foot-and-a-half in depth, marked ac in the plan, a narrow door, b, gives access to it. Between a and b a small aperture in the wall marked x communicates with this curious recess, and the remains of a second aperture exist further to the left. It is difficult to understand the purpose of this structure.1 Plate VII represents the wall ac with the doorway and apertures referred to. A door marked h leads into a larger courtyard which again communicates by three doors on its western side with the colonnade. Whether this further courtyard was a portion of the purlieus of the temple is uncertain, no doubt a considerable space would be required for the medical work of the priest physicians. Plate V represents the west wall of the temple (shewing a mediaeval Coptic doorway broken through into the sanctuary), also a part of the 1. Is it possible this was a drug store or dispensary ; the prescription being passed in at the one aperture and the medicine given out from the other f
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