T he ancient Library of Alexandria, where the writings of Hippocrates and other dassical phy-
sicians were collected and preserved, is being resurrected by the Egyptian government. The …

In our western world there is a childlike tendency to believe almost anything about the
abilities of the ancients. It is widely believed that ancient Egyptian grain-the so-called …

RATIONAL medicine had its beginning with the Greeks after its transition through
Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hindu, and Chinese channels, but it did not come into its own until …

The acquisition of the" Canon Medicinte" of Avicenna (Venice, Guinta, i6o8), through the
generosity of one of our Fellows, fills a very important vacancy which existed in the historical …

IV.? MEDICINE IN ANCIENT EGYPT. By ET Withington, MA, MB Oxon.-xjjsiuNG the"
mastabas" or tombs of Egyptian grandees which surround the pyramids of Sakkarah is one …

Ancient Medicine is thetitle of one'of the Hippocratic books. On hearing its name for the
firsttime we can scarcely restrain a smile at such a title being given to a book by one who is …

Cordova, capital of the Western Caliphate, was worthy of its ancient Phoenician name, Carta-
Tuba, the great city. Its 200,000 houses may have contained a million inhabitants, whose …

Whereas in Great Britain before the war, there was one doctor to approximately every
thousand of the population, in West Africa there was one doctor to every 60,000. To provide …

THE partial text of an ancient Sumerian clay tablet has recently been published by Professor
Samuel Noah Kramer of the University of Pennsylvania, who found the tablet amongst a …

But it was not until the period of the Renaissance,(that marvelous fifteenth century), that art,
applied to the study of medicine, or anatomy, made its appearance. The medieval physician …