I-em-hotep and Ancient Egyptian medicine: Prevention of valvular disease

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Richard Caton. I-em-hotep and Ancient Egyptian medicine: Prevention of valvular disease

I-em-hotep and Ancient Egyptian medicine: Prevention of valvular disease

Table of Contents

I. Egypt and the Earliest Researches on the Circulation

The Medicine God I-em-hotep

Testimonies as to I-em-hotep

Necropsies made by the Egyptian Priests

References to the Circulation in the Medical Papyri

Importance of the Medicine and Sanitation of Ancient Egypt

Methods Employed by the Egyptian Physicians

II. A Suggestion in Regard to Preventive Treatment of Valvular Disease

Joints recover: Why does the Endocardium fail to do so?

The Rheumatic Joint rests, but not the Rheumatic Heart

Disastrous results of Valvulitis if not specially treated

The work of the Rheumatic Heart must for a time be minimised

Two Objections to the Proposed Method

Successful Results obtained

Footnote

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Richard Caton

The Harveian Oration delivered before the Royal college of physicians on June 21, 1904

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II A Suggestion in Regard to Preventive Treatment of Valvular Disease

Joints recover: Why does the Endocardium fail to do so?

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