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Traditional Sources: The Ancient Cultures Collection

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The Ancient Cultures Collection

The Ancient Cultures collection is a representation of seminal and origin texts with importance to contemporary medical practice. The publication of these sources can be credited as some of the first English translations of Egyptian medical papyrus (Ancient Egyptian medicine: The Papyrus Ebers, 1930; The Hearst medical papyrus,1905). The Medicine-Men of the Apache is an ethnographic study of Indigenous American tribes and their medical practice (Bourke, 1892). 

Ancient Cultures eBooks

The papyrus Ebers. (1930). (C. P. Bryan, Trans.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924073200077&view=1up&seq=6 (Original work published ca. 1500 B.C.E.).

The papyrus Ebers

The old Egyptian medical papyri

Reisner, G. A. (1905). Hearst medical papyrus: Hieratic text in 17 facsimile plates in collotype with introduction and vocabulary. J. C. Hinrichs. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gt745jqg/items?canvas=5

Hearst medical papyrus

Bourke, J. G. (1892). The medicine-men of the Apache. https://archive.org/details/medicinemenofapa00bourrich/mode/2up?view=theater

The medicine-men of the Apache. 

Ancient Cultures Reference List