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First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 122; portrait frontispiece; 14 figures in the text; very good, sound, and clean copy in original gray cloth-backed black cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped spine. Without a printed dust jacket, as issued. A "fascinating account of Egyptian urology from the earliest recorded history to the present time. "The medical school of Alexandria . exerted a profound influence in all the countries of the Near East. The great Byzantine doctors invariably pursued their studies in the capital of Egypt before establishing themselves in Constantinople . Archaeological diggings in the ancient site of Upper Egypt have brought to light many fragments of Greek and Coptic papyrus; we can merely surmise that the studies of the great doctors of Alexandria were known in the country, and that the medical works of the Hippocratic school of Galen and of Soranus were read" (foreword).