Medicine and healing practices in Ancient Egypt

REVIEW BY J PETER PHILLIPS In contrast with previous works on this subject, which have focused exclusively on the remedies available to ancient Egyptian medical practitioners, this work also considers the subject from the viewpoint of the patient – a more people-based approach. The authors are uniquely qualified for the task: Professor Emerita Rosalie David spent a large part of her career studying the evidence for disease in mummies in the Manchester Museum’s collection, before founding the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, and Dr Roger Forshaw was a dental surgeon before embarking on his second career in Egyptology. In an introductory chapter, which considers the ways in whic