Springfield Twp. Library Presents – Medicine of Ancient Egypt

Back by popular demand, Dr. Stephen R. Phillips, Curatorial Research Coordinator in the Egyptian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Dr. Steve will provide a richly illustrated lecture that introduces ancient Egypt’s medical world. We meet history’s earliest documented physician, Imhotep, and the earliest documented dentist, Hesy-re. We examine the role of magic and herbs in ancient Egyptian medicine, look at cases outlining specific surgical intervention, and we examine an actual case of what was perhaps successful trauma surgery – as evidenced on human skeletal remains recovered during recent excavations in the cemeteries behind the Great Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza, Egypt.