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The management
of skeletal injuries
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in ancient Egypt
G. Zaki Said
Egypt had a professional class of Fractures were splinted using strips
doctors as early as the Old Kingdom, of bark, or wood, padded with
five thousand years ago, and there linen (Fig. 1). The bandage was
were already, at that time, specialists first dipped in powdered beans,
in different branches of medicine. or barley, then mixed with honey
They had such a world-wide repu- and resins that stiffen when dry.
tation that many dignitaries and There are many examples of healed
sovereigns traveled far to consult fractures of long bones that have
them. Priests and magicians were united with such good alignment
concerned in primary health care, that it is barely possible to discern
probably in an inferior capacity. the fracture lines (Fig. 2). This
Mummified bodies, wall paint- is particularly impressive in the
ings and hieroglyphs have shown case of the oblique fracture of the
Fig. 2. Examples of healed fractures with
some of the orthopaedic practices of adult femur, which united without
that time. The reduction of fractures significant overlap. It is not known excellent alignment. The white arrows
mark the original fracture lines.
by manipulation, either unaided or h