Medicine
Description
We often think of modern medicine as only really beginning at the Renaissance - but we're wrong. The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an ancient textbook on surgery that dates back to about 1600 BC. It is full of details on the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of numerous ailments. This film looks into the grisly but brilliant surgeries of the great ancient physicians to witness three procedures common at the time but which would not be attempted successfully again for nearly 2,000 years?
Runtime
50 min
Series
Subjects
- Social structure (572)
- Cultural geography (235)
- Population (248)
- Social evolution (72)
- Civilization, Ancient (344)
- Social ecology (250)
- Technology and civilization (75)
- Assimilation (Sociology) (93)
- Tribes (122)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2002
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102638&xtid=55091
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