Ancient Egyptian Medicine - Paul Ghalioungui (Paperback)

Chapters: Paul Ghalioungui. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Paul Ghalioungui or Ghalioungi (1908-1987), MD (Cairo), MRCP (Lond), Professor of Medicine and former Chairman of Internal Medicine department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. An the Egyptian endocrinologist, Historian of Egyptian medicine, Egyptologist and an authority on Pharonic medicine., he has written a vivid history of Egyptian medicine in English, French, Arabic, German and Spanish. An Egyptian by birth, education, and practice, he writes of present and past Egyptian medicine (in Arabic, English and French) as only a clinician could write whose hobby was Egyptian archaeology and medical history. "It has long been my conviction that the medical history of a nation should be written by a native. A practicing physician, Dr. Ghalioungui proves this contention." He spent some time in Kuwait during the 1970s. Professor Mohammad Kamel Hussein (MKH), known in Egypt as the Father of Orthopedics, was an exemplary teacher and philosopher. He encouraged both Prof. Paul Ghalioungi, head of internal medicine and Prof. Ahmed Ammar, the distinguished gynecologist in Ain Shams Medical College, to join him in pursuing the study of ancient Egyptian medicine. The great orthopedic surgeon had a great interest in studying and researching the history of medicine, especially of Ancient Egyptians. The late Professor Paul Ghalioungi was president of the. XXIXth International Congress of the History of Medicine, Egypt-Cairo December 26, 1984-January 1, 1985. The main theme was Egyptian medicine up to the 3rd century of the Christian era. Islamic medicine and East-West relations. Ghaliounghui was acquainted with both pharaonic medicine and modern medicine. A man of much influence, he was the...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=24223594