The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus: Published in Facsimile and Hieroglyphic Transliteration with Translation and Commentary.

First thus. Limited edition, number 943 of 7.500, with limitation leather and gilt label front endpaper. Full leather binding with gilt decoration and title, raised bands, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker, all edges giilt, b&w illus, b&w plates, index, pp 596, 8 plates. Includes printed pamphlet about the papyrus. Water damage at the top corner of pages, through approx. half of book (not affecting text). Good condition. Privately printed for members of the Classics of Surgery Library. This edition first printed in 1930. The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian medical text, named after Edwin Smith who bought it in 1862, and the oldest known surgical treatise on trauma. It dates to Dynasties 16?17 of the Second Intermediate Period in ancient Egypt, c. 1600 BCE. and may have been a manual of military surgery. James Henry Breasted's translation changed the understanding of the history of medicine. It demonstrates that Egyptian medical care was not limited to the magical modes of healing demonstrated in other Egyptian medical sources: rational, scientific practices were used, constructed through observation and examination.…