A spotlight on the history of ancient Egyptian medicine / Ibrahim M. Eltorai

Includes bibliographical references

Why study the history of medicine? -- The egyptian land -- The diet, hygiene, and social life -- The afterlife in ancient egyptian beliefs -- Medicine, religion, and magic -- Egyptian medicine -- Influence of ancient egyptian medicine on greek medicine and beyond -- The egyptian physicians and their assistants -- The sources of the history of ancient egyptian medicine : the papyri -- Ancient egyptian medical sciences -- Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease (in the modern era) -- Clinical aspects of cardiovascular disease in ancient Eqypt (from the Ebers papyrus : the vascular text) -- Paleopathology of cardiovascular diseases and pathogenesis with analysis -- Ancient egyptian pharmacology -- Tribute to the scribe