1824 MARX, Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1796 – 1877)
Origines contagii.
History of contagious disease in the ancient world through readings from the texts. A supplementary “Additamenta” was published in 1826. Digital facsimile of the 1824 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3512
1835 HYRTL, Josef (1810 – 1894)
Antiquitates anatomicae rariores, quibus origo, incrementa et status anatomes, apud antiquissimae memoriae gentes, historica fide illustrantur.
Anatomical terms used in antiquity, representing to a certain, extent a survey of the literature of ancient medicine available to Hyrtl. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this l…
GMN 439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1095
1875 EBERS, Georg Moritz (1837 – 1898); STERN, Ludwig Christian (1846 – 1911)
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 [Christian] Stern, mit Unterstützung des Königlich Sächsischen Cultusministerium. 2 vols.
The Ebers Papyrus dates from about 1552 BCE. It measures 20.23 m. in length and 30 cm. in height, and is, along with the Edwin Smith Papyrus, one of the two most important surviving medical papyri. It was written in h…
GMN 2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/26
1876 SCHWIMMER, Ernst (1837 – 1898)
Die ersten Anfänge der Heilkunde und die Medizin im alten Aegypten. Eine kulturgeschichteliche Skizze.
Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenscbaftlicher Vorträge, No. 255.
GMN 6469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7670
1898 GRIFFITH, Francis Llewellyn (1862 – 1934)
The Petrie papyri. Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (Principally of the Middle Kingdom) edited by F. Ll. Griffith.
KAHUN GYNECOLOGICAL PAPYRUS
The Kahun Gynecological Papyrus (also Kahun Papyrus, Kahun Medical Papyrus, or UC 32057) is the oldest known medical text on papyrus, dating from circa 1800 BCE. It was found at El-Lahun, Egypt (Faiyum, Kahun, كاهم
GMN 7011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9177
1905 REISNER, George Andrew (1867 – 1942)
The Hearst Medical Papyrus: Hieratic text in 17 facsimile plates in collotype with introduction and vocabulary by George A. Reisner. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology, Volume 1.
The papyrus has been dated to the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, around the time of pharaoh Tuthmosis III. The text is believed to have been composed earlier, during the Middle Kingdom, around 2000 BCE. The papyrus is so unus…
GMN 8390 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10567
1906 GEORGIADÈS, Nicolas (1875 – )
La pharmacie en Egypte.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15395
1909 WRESZINSKI, Walter (1880 – 1935)
Der grosse medizinische Papyrus des Berliner Museums (Pap. Berl. 3038) in Facsimile und Umschrift mit Uebersetzung, Kommentar und Glossar. Herausg. von Walter Wreszinski.
BRUGSCH PAPYRUS
The Greater German Papyrus (Brugsch Papyrus) dates from about 1300 BCE. The above facsimile reproduction and translation forms vol. 1 of the Medizin der alten Aegypter series. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National …
GMN 4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/28
1912 WRESZINSKI, Walter (1880 – 1935)
Der Londoner medizinische Papyrus (Brit. Museum 10 059) und der Papyrus Hearst in Transkription, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Herausgegeben von Walther Wreszinski. Mit Facsimile der Londoner Pap. auf 17 Lichtdrucktafeln.
The London Medical Papyrus contains "61 recipes, of which 25 are classified as medical while the remainder are of magic.[1] The medical foci of the writing are skin complaints, eye complaints, bleeding[2] (predominant…
GMN 11097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13293
1926 HURRY, Jameson Boyd (1857 – 1930)
Imhotep: the vizier and physician of Kind Zoser, and afterwards the Egyptian god of medicine.
GMN 6470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7673
1927 –1948 SARTON, George Alfred Léon (1884 – 1956)
Introduction to the history of science. 3 vols. in 5.
An extensively annotated bibliographical survey to the end of the 14th century.
GMN 6419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8412
1930 BREASTED, James Henry (1865 – 1935)
The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus. Published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted. 2 vols.
At Luxor, Egypt, in 1862 the American collector and dealer in papyri Edwin Smith purchased the papyrus which bears his name. It is preserved at the New York Academy of Medicine. The original text was written about 300…
GMN 4850 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6807
1930 PIANKOFF, Alexandre (1897 – 1966)
Le cœur dans les textes égyptiens depuis l'ancien jusqu'à la fin du nouvel Empire.
GMN 12366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14590
1935 GARDINER, Sir Alan Henderson (1879 – 1963)
Hieratic papyri in the British Museum: Third series: Chester Beatty gift. Edited by Alan H. Gardiner. 2 vols.
Reproduces, with transcription, the Chester Beatty medical papyrus. See No. 5.
GMN 8318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10494
1935 GRAPOW, Hermann (1885 – 1967)
Ueber die anatomischen kenntnisse der altägyptischen ärzte. Morgenland; Darstellungen aus Geschichte und Kultur des Ostens., Hft. 26.
GMN 8403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10580
1944 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
Une maladie Égyptienne: l'hématurie parasitaire.
GMN 8470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10647
1947 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
Le papyrus médical Chester Beatty, par le Dr. Frans Jonckheere.
A hieratic papyrus of the 13th-12th century BCE. It is a fragment of a monograph on diseases of the anus. The papyrus was reproduced with transcription by A. H. Gardiner in 1935. See No. 8318.
GMN 5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/29
1954 –1973 DIENES, Hildegard von; WESTENDORF, Wolfhart (1924 – ); GRAPOW, Hermann (1885 – 1967)
Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter. 9 vols in 11.
Vol. 1. H. Grapow, Anatomie und Physiologie (1954) Vol. 2. H. Grapow, Von den medizinischen Texten (1955) Vol. 3. H. Grapow, Kraner, Krankheiten und Arzt (1956) Vol. 4.1. H. von Dienes, H. Grapow, W. Westendorf, Ubers…
GMN 6471.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10581
1954 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
Prescriptions médicales sur ostraca hiératiques.
GMN 8469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10646
1954 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.
Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.
GMN 9879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12067
1958 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
Les médecins de l'Égypte pharaonique, essai de prosopographie.
GMN 10257 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12448
1959 BONNER, Campbell (1876 – 1974)
Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.
A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…
GMN 10753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12949
1963 GHALIOUNGUI, Paul (Ghalioungi) (1908 – 1987)
Magic and medical science in ancient Egypt.
GMN 8320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10496
1977 DARBY, William Jefferson (1913 – 2001); GHALIOUNGUI, Paul (Ghalioungi) (1908 – 1987); GRIVETTI, Louis Evan (1938 – )
Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.
Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.
GMN 1092.54 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/909
1983 GHALIOUNGUI, Paul (Ghalioungi) (1908 – 1987)
The physicians of pharaonic Egypt. (Deutsches Archäologisches Instutut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschrift 10).
GMN 8316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10492
1987 GHALIOUNGUI, Paul (Ghalioungi) (1908 – 1987)
The Ebers papyrus: A new English translation, commentaries and glossary by Paul Ghalioungui.
GMN 8315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10491
1988 LECA, Ange-Pierre
La médecine égyptienne au temps des Pharaons.
GMN 13810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16098
1989 MANNICHE, Lisa
An ancient Egyptian herbal.
GMN 8471 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10648
1991 –2007 PRIORESCHI, Plinio (1930 – 2014)
A history of medicine. 6 vols.
Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…
GMN 7415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9587
1994 MARGANNE, Marie-Hélène
L'ophtalmologie dans l'Egypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraires grecs.
GMN 8281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10457
1996 NUNN, John F. (1925 – )
Ancient Egyptian medicine.
This is the best comparatively brief, but sufficiently detailed, survey in English.
GMN 8319 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10495
1998 MARGANNE, Marie-Hélène
La chirurgie dans l'Égypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraire grecs.
GMN 8283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10459
1999 WESTENDORF, Wolfhart (1924 – )
Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin. 2 vols.
GMN 7083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9250
2000 KOLTA, Kamal Sabri (1930 – ); SCHWARZMANN-SCHAFHAUSER, Doris
Die Heilkunde in alten Aegypten (Sudhoffs Archiv Beiheft 42).
Covers both magic and empirical treatment, with a particular focus on the treatment of diseases studied on the basis of texts, including the preparation of medicines.
GMN 10000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12189
2001 SCHEIDEL, Walter (1966 – )
Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.
GMN 10695 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12888
2004 HORSTMANSHOFF, Manfred (1944 – ); STOL, Marten (1940 – )
Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.
The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…
GMN 8312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10488
2004 MYŚLIWIEC, Karol (1943 – )
Eros on the Nile. Translated from the Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer.
Originally published by Eros nad Nilem (Prószyyńki i S-ka S.A, 1998).
GMN 8321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10497
2006 RAJ, Marguerite Hirt
Médecins et malades de l'Egypte romaine: Étude socio-légale de la profession médicale et de ses praticiens du Ier au IVe siècle ap. J.-C.
GMN 8285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10461
2007 FROSCHAUER, Harald (1976 – ); RÖMER, Cornelia Eva (1953 – )
Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft: Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten.
GMN 12307 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14529
2009 CHIPMAN, Leigh
The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo.
"...the first detailed analysis of an immensely popular 13th c. Arabic guide for pharmacists, from a time in which Jewish physicians and pharmacists worked alongside Muslim and Christian practioners. Minhāj al-dukkān …
GMN 8293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10469
2009 SILVA VEIGA, Paula Alexandra da
Health and medicine in ancient Egypt. Magic and science (British Archaeological Reports [BAR] International Series 1967).
Detailed study of documentation (papyri, ostraca and mummies) followed by a list of pathologies by types and some considerations on medicines and their materia medica.
GMN 10001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12190
2012 RICHARD-ALAIN, Jean
La chirurgie en Égypte ancienne. À propos des instruments médico-chirurgicaux métalliques égyptiens conserves au musée du Louvre.
GMN 8402 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10579
2013 LANG, Philippa
Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt.
GMN 8300 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10476
2018 BARDINET, Thierry
Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.
Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…
GMN 9711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11898
2019 ELTORAI, Ibrahim M.
A spotlight on the history of ancient Egyptian medicine.
A general survey with chapters that focus on the ancient Egyptian understanding and treatments of cardiovascular disease, as well as a description of herbal medicines used by ancient Egypt medical practitioners and ph…
GMN 11056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13252
