The Harveian Oration, 1904
by Richard Caton
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About this eBook
- Author
- Caton, Richard, 1842-1926
- Title
- I-em-hotep and Ancient Egyptian medicine: II. Prevention of valvular disease The Harveian Oration delivered before the Royal college of physicians on June 21, 1904
- Credits
- Produced by Turgut Dincer, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- RC: Medicine: Internal medicine
- Subject
- Medicine, Egyptian
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61800
- Release Date
- April 10, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE HARVEIAN ORATION — THE HARVEIAN ORATION 1904
- 2.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
- 3.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
- 4.FOOTNOTES
- 5.Transcriber’s Notes
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