My patients were mummies / Michael R. Zimmerman, M.D., Ph. D. (adjunct professor, Biology Department, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and others).
Why and how do we examine mummies? -- The history of mummy paleopathology -- An Aleut mummy comes to Washington -- The doctor becomes a grad student -- Experimental mummification -- Egyptian mummies in museums -- The Dahkleh Oasis project -- An Egyptian mummy is made in Baltimore -- Practicing medicine in ancient Egypt -- My oldest patients -- Two mummies are admitted to Harvard -- The St. Lawrence Island Iniut mummy -- The frozen family of Barrow, Alaska -- Agniayaaq : a prehistoric eskimo child in Alaska -- Paleopathology and human evolution -- Curios, African art and paleopathology -- Helmsman's elbow : an occupational disease of the 17th century -- The Salem witch trials : Joan of Arc and ergotism -- 20th century paleopathology : a train robber and a president -- The Manchester mummy project -- Antarctica's frozen seal mummies and the spread of tuberculosis.
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