Special Wound Healing Methods Used in Ancient Egypt and the Mythological Background

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 211-216

  Sipos, Péter ^a   Gyõry, Hedvig ^b   Hagymási, Krisztina ^a   Ondrejka, Pál ^a   Blázovics, Anna ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Museum of Fine Arts   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDAGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EGYPT; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; REVIEW; SURGERY; WOUND HEALING;

BANDAGES; DRUG THERAPY; EGYPT; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MAGIC; MYTHOLOGY; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 10744222841     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-7073-x     Document Type: Review

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