TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrew H. Gordon
AU  - Calvin W. Schwabe
TI  - The Quick and the Dead: Biomedical Theory in Ancient Egypt
SN  - 90-04-12391-1
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - E.J. Brill, STYX Publications
KW  - Ancient Egypt
KW  - Medicine
N2  - 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
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