HS203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edwin Smith Papyrus, Paleopathology
Document Summary
Science & art for evidence of disease in antiquity. Written evidence edwin smith papyrus: 3 categories of injuries, an aliment i will handle, an aliment i will fight with, and aliment for which nothing is done. The met-museum collection/exhibit: curator james allen, the relics of ancient egyptian civilization testify to the egyptians" perpetual effort to understand the world they lived in. Are physical, digitalized, and video sources reliable: limits of the source and limits of your own perspective, you will make your own biases. What are the limitations to the sources: scientific source allows us to come up with theories but we have no idea about what actually happen so we have to be mindful.
