DOI Artikel:
Smith, Grafton Elliot: Anatomical report (A)
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18101#0041
The discovery of a case of tuberculosis in the Biga cemetery is excep-
tionally interesting because there are no records whatever of the
existence of this disease in Ancient Egypt. In my examination of the
human remains found by Dr. Reisner in the Ancient Empire cemetery
at the Giza Pyramids (Hearst Egyptian Expedition's excavations), I
found the skeleton of a small child with the typical lesion of advanced
hip disease which may have been tubercular. Apart from this, I
know of no example of undoubted tuberculosis from an old Egyptian
cemetery except the case here recorded by Dr. Wood Jones.
Addendum.— The term "Nubian" has been employed in so many different senses by Anthro-
pologists that i hesitated to use it : but, as it has been adopted in the archaeological report, i shall
in future discard the use of the colloquial term "Berberine" (and Barabra, for which it stands)
and employ the word "Nubian" in the same restricted sense as these well-known names.
G. Elliot Smith.
tionally interesting because there are no records whatever of the
existence of this disease in Ancient Egypt. In my examination of the
human remains found by Dr. Reisner in the Ancient Empire cemetery
at the Giza Pyramids (Hearst Egyptian Expedition's excavations), I
found the skeleton of a small child with the typical lesion of advanced
hip disease which may have been tubercular. Apart from this, I
know of no example of undoubted tuberculosis from an old Egyptian
cemetery except the case here recorded by Dr. Wood Jones.
Addendum.— The term "Nubian" has been employed in so many different senses by Anthro-
pologists that i hesitated to use it : but, as it has been adopted in the archaeological report, i shall
in future discard the use of the colloquial term "Berberine" (and Barabra, for which it stands)
and employ the word "Nubian" in the same restricted sense as these well-known names.
G. Elliot Smith.