Excerpt from I. I-Em-Hotep and Ancient Egyptian Medicine; II. Prevention of Valvular Disease: The Harveian Oration, Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians on June 21, 1904 Desiring to render this address as little wearisome as may be I propose to divide it into two parts the first archaeological, dealing with Egyptian medicine, the medicine god, and the earliest inquiries known to have been made con cerning the Circulation and circulatory diseases Viz., those of the physicians of ancient Egypt, a department of pre - Harveian work, and perhaps the only one, which has not been dealt with in this room. Secondly, I wish to Speak with great brevity on the more practical subject of the pre ventive treatment of certain forms of circulatory disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.