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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

This is so absolutely cool

The Edwin Smith papyrus is the oldest surviving surgical text. It is part of an online exhibit from the National Library of Medicine called Turning the Pages, which allows the user to turn the pages of the book (or in this case, unroll the scroll), and zoom to read, or click to translate various sections. It requires Adobe Flash Player to work (anything version 6 or better).

Other works available:

Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de Arte Distillandi
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia
Conrad Gesner’s Historiae Animalium
Ambroise Paré’s Oeuvres
Andreas Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Johannes de Ketham's Fasiculo de Medicina

Check it out!

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