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Plates vi & vii of the Edwin Smith Papyrus at the Rare Book Room, New York Academy of Medicine.
Plates vi & vii of the Edwin Smith Papyrus at the Rare Book Room, New York Academy of Medicine.

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trauma surgery, written in hieratic around the 19th century BC, but thought to be based on material from a thousand years earlier. It is the world's earliest known example of medical literature
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