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42_82 Cairo, Egypt are crusted together on each other so that the man's legs are paralyzed. He says nothing that is known can be done for this - but he records as a scientific observer what he has seen. A man's skull is crushed and he reaches his fingers in and does everything to relieve the pressure. He describes the convolutions of the brain, likening the surface appearance to the appearance of melted copper when it cools. He gives or rather uses a word from this structure, "the brains", and Professor Breasted remarked that there for the first time he was standing in the presence of the word "brains". A great many words never met before in later [?] found in this earlier [ms]. If the word is used a half-dozen times it is possible |
42_83 Jan. 31, 1926 to get at its meaning. If it is used only once it may not be possible or ever be possible. The ancient author speaks of the voice of the heart as being heard in every part of the body! He says of a certain case, that having done all that is possible, it is now necessary "to stake him to his anchorage ", that is give the patient a rest, stop medicine and let nature take its course. The expression just cited with quotation marks is not the phrase as Breasted said it. I cannot recall it exactly. Doubtless it can be found in the publication of the [?], which is now being published. Dr. Breasted speaks of a very remarkable collection of plants taken from the tombs; now on exhibition in Chicago U. Oriental Mus.; a printed list of determinations by a German botanist. |
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