DOI Artikel:
Smith, Grafton Elliot; Jones, Frederic Wood: Anatomical report
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18102#0047
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The skin and hair of one dog were well preserved; and the coat
appears to have been fairly short and of a uniform brown colour.
The muzzle was long and fairly pointed, but the face tended to be
broader than that of the dogs found in the New Empire pits.
The whole collection of animal remains will be preserved for future
study, and, beyond measuring the bones, only such field-work as may
afford archaeological evidence attempted.
The pathological specimens obtained from all the cemeteries up to
and including No. 17 are described in a separate report in this Bulletin ;
and a list of all the diseased and damaged bones found at the other
sites, i.e. from Cemeteries Nos. 22 to 48, has been added to that
account.
As neither of us can claim any special knowledge of pathology, we
have asked for a more liberal allowance of illustrative photographs
for the special report, so as to make perfectly clear the exact nature
of the material with which we have to deal. We hope that the circu-
lation of this Bulletin may bring us the advice and help of those who
are competent to express an opinion on the problems of bone-pathology,
so that we can make the annual report a more useful record than
might otherwise be the case. At the present time, when the results
obtained in the treatment of fractured bones by modern surgeons are
being subjected to a searching criticism (see British Medical Journal,
March 28, 1908, inter alia), our photographs of bones which have
mended, either without treatment or with only the crude attentions
of the archaic surgeon, ought to have a special interest.
In the first Bulletin (p. 38), we referred to a case of disease of the
elbow joint, associated with disorganization of the sacro-iliac joint
and some of the vertebral articulations, which seemed to us to be
definitely tubercular in nature. Dr. Charles Todd examined the
lungs from this body and found considerable numbers of micro-
organisms ; but he is able to state definitely that none of them are
tubercle bacilli.
Dr. A. R. Ferguson, Professor of Pathology in the Cairo School of
Medicine, has made a careful examination of these and other patho-
logical specimens obtained by us, and has given his deliberate opinion
that none of them are the lesions of tuberculosis.
Under these circumstances we are bound to admit that no case of
definite tubercular disease has yet been found in an ancient Egyptian
of any date.
The skin and hair of one dog were well preserved; and the coat
appears to have been fairly short and of a uniform brown colour.
The muzzle was long and fairly pointed, but the face tended to be
broader than that of the dogs found in the New Empire pits.
The whole collection of animal remains will be preserved for future
study, and, beyond measuring the bones, only such field-work as may
afford archaeological evidence attempted.
The pathological specimens obtained from all the cemeteries up to
and including No. 17 are described in a separate report in this Bulletin ;
and a list of all the diseased and damaged bones found at the other
sites, i.e. from Cemeteries Nos. 22 to 48, has been added to that
account.
As neither of us can claim any special knowledge of pathology, we
have asked for a more liberal allowance of illustrative photographs
for the special report, so as to make perfectly clear the exact nature
of the material with which we have to deal. We hope that the circu-
lation of this Bulletin may bring us the advice and help of those who
are competent to express an opinion on the problems of bone-pathology,
so that we can make the annual report a more useful record than
might otherwise be the case. At the present time, when the results
obtained in the treatment of fractured bones by modern surgeons are
being subjected to a searching criticism (see British Medical Journal,
March 28, 1908, inter alia), our photographs of bones which have
mended, either without treatment or with only the crude attentions
of the archaic surgeon, ought to have a special interest.
In the first Bulletin (p. 38), we referred to a case of disease of the
elbow joint, associated with disorganization of the sacro-iliac joint
and some of the vertebral articulations, which seemed to us to be
definitely tubercular in nature. Dr. Charles Todd examined the
lungs from this body and found considerable numbers of micro-
organisms ; but he is able to state definitely that none of them are
tubercle bacilli.
Dr. A. R. Ferguson, Professor of Pathology in the Cairo School of
Medicine, has made a careful examination of these and other patho-
logical specimens obtained by us, and has given his deliberate opinion
that none of them are the lesions of tuberculosis.
Under these circumstances we are bound to admit that no case of
definite tubercular disease has yet been found in an ancient Egyptian
of any date.