| Herodotus - 1846 - 426 pages
...wooden models of dead bodies, painted to imitate nature ; and first explain to them the most-carelully executed of these patterns, the name of which in this...sharp Ethiopian stone, they make an incision down the Hank, by which they draw out the whole of the intestines : having cleansed the abdomen, and rinsed... | |
| Royal College of Surgeons of England - 1874 - 782 pages
...Herodotus, in his description of the method of embalming practised by the Ancient Egyptians, that " in the first place, with an iron hook, they draw out the brain through the nostrils, and fill up the vacuum by injecting drugs." Among other additions to the general Osteological Series... | |
| 1874 - 750 pages
...Herodotus, in hie description of the method of embalming practised by the ancient Egyptians, that, " in tho first place, with an iron hook, they draw out the brain through the nostrils, and fill up the vacuum by injecting drugs." • Among other additions to the general Osteological Series... | |
| sir William Henry Flower - 1879 - 302 pages
...Herodotus, in his description of the method of embalming practised by the Ancient Egyptians, that, " in the first place, with an iron hook they draw out the brain through the nostrils, and fill up the vacuum by injecting drugs." 584. The skull of an ancient Egyptian from Thebes : ¿... | |
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