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tomb; others seem to have had bones excised, and
placed separately with the body. In one case acute and
chronic inflammation and rheumatism of the back had
united most of the vertebrae into a solid mass down
the inner side. In another case there had been a
rickety curvature of the spine. To find so many
peculiarities in only about fifteen skeletons which I
collected, is strange. These are all in the Royal
College of Surgeons now, for study.

Medum has, then, led us some way further back
than we had reached before in the history of Egyptian
civilization ; but it has shown how vastly our informa-
tion must be increased before the problems are solved.

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