Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt [Paperback]

This monograph comprises the Proceedings of The Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt Conferences, jointly organised by The University of Manchester, Britain, and the National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt, and held at The National Research Centre (March 19-21, 2007) and The University of Manchester (September 1-3, 2008). Contents; 1) The Pharmacy in Ancient Egypt Project at the KNH centre for biomedical Egyptology (A.R. David); 2) Complementary medicine in ancient and modern Egypt (R. Baligh); 3) How the success of the ancient Egyptians depended on plants (J. Bellinger); 4) Do the formulations of ancient Egyptian prescriptions stand up to pharmaceutical scrutiny? (J.M. Campbell, J.R. Campbell and A.R. David); 5) The application of archaeobotany, phytogeography and pharmacognosy to confirm the pharmacopoeia of ancient Egypt 1850 -1200 BC) (J.M. Campbell and A.R. David); 6) A reassessment of Warren Dawsons Studies in Ancient Egyptian Medical Texts 1926-1934 in the light of archaeobotanical and pharmacological evidence (J.M. Campbell, E. El Saeed and A.R. David); 7) A grain of truth? determining the diet of the ancient Egyptians (J.A. Cockitt); 8) Supporting evidence: the potential role of stable isotope data in investigating the ancient Egyptian pharmaceutical tradition (J.A. Cockitt); 9) The x-ray plates of Tutankhamen: a reassessment of their meaning and significance (R.C. Connolly); 10) Blue lotus: ancient Egyptian narcotic and aphrodisiac? (D.J. Counsell); 11) Cocaine and nicotine in ancient Egypt? (D.J. Counsell); 12) Dead men tell tales: what we can learn from the courtier skeleton. A multidisciplinary study (B.L. Dement); 13) Histological examination of ancient pomegranate and wheat (J. Denton and S. Wassef); 14) Porotic hyperostosis in ancient Egyptians from the Bahriyah Oasis, Graeco-Roman period (M.Erfan Zaki, A. El-Sawaf, M. Al-Tohamy Soliman and A. Azab); 15) Were the dentists in ancient Egypt operative dental surgeons or wl£S