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DOI Artikel:Ruffer, Marc Amand: Histological studies on egyptian mummies
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The methods therefore used by the Egyptians of the XXIst dynasty for preserving
the bodies of their friends were of the simplest ; namely, pickling in sait solution and
filling up with sand or mud to absorb moisture. Thèse methods were sufficient to pré-
serve the histological structure of the tissues.
The observations on which this paper is based were made more than two years
ago. Dr. Willmore showed some of the sections at the British Médical Association in
July 1908, and I demonstrated them at a meeting of the Cairo Scientific Society in
December of the same year.
The paper and the illustrations accompanying it were finished more than one
year ago, but publication was delayed until the Institut Egyptien very generously
offered to bear the greater part of the expense. I may be permitted therefore to offer
my best thanks to the members of the Institut for their kindness and generosity.
The delay has been in some measure an advantage. It has enabled me to control
my work over and over again, and I have found no reason to alter this account of my
observations. Indeed, the hope expressed in this paper that histological investigations
would add to our ktiowledge of the pathology of ancient Egypt, has since been fulfilled.
Ramleh 1910.
the bodies of their friends were of the simplest ; namely, pickling in sait solution and
filling up with sand or mud to absorb moisture. Thèse methods were sufficient to pré-
serve the histological structure of the tissues.
The observations on which this paper is based were made more than two years
ago. Dr. Willmore showed some of the sections at the British Médical Association in
July 1908, and I demonstrated them at a meeting of the Cairo Scientific Society in
December of the same year.
The paper and the illustrations accompanying it were finished more than one
year ago, but publication was delayed until the Institut Egyptien very generously
offered to bear the greater part of the expense. I may be permitted therefore to offer
my best thanks to the members of the Institut for their kindness and generosity.
The delay has been in some measure an advantage. It has enabled me to control
my work over and over again, and I have found no reason to alter this account of my
observations. Indeed, the hope expressed in this paper that histological investigations
would add to our ktiowledge of the pathology of ancient Egypt, has since been fulfilled.
Ramleh 1910.