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The Quick and the Dead?
Biomedical Theory in Ancient Egypt
Andrew H. Gordon and Calvin W. Schwabe

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Egyptological Memoirs

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.

Readership: All those interested in Egyptology, medical or veterinary history, comparative medicine, history of science and religion, man-animal relationships, medical and veterinary anthropology (ethnoarchaeology & northeastern Africa)

Andrew H. Gordon , Ph.D. in Egyptology, University of California at Berkeley (1983), M.S. in Paleontology, University of Rochester (1970), has published on Egyptian archaeology, history, lexicography and religion.
Calvin W. Schwabe , D.M.V. (1954), Auburn University; M.P.H., Sc.D. (1956), Harvard University, is Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and of Agricultural History. Among his publications are Veterinary Medicine and Human Health (Williams & Wilkins, 1984) and Cattle, Priests and Progress in Medicine (University of Minnesota, 1978).

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