Recommandations en neurochirurgie.

«Case Thirty-One: Instructions concerning a dislocation in a vertebra of [his] neck.

Examination: If thou examinest a man having a dislocation in a vertebra of his neck, shouldst thou find him unconscious of his two arms (and) his two legs on account of it, while his phallus is erected on account of it, (and) urine drops from his member without his knowing it; his flesh has received wind; his two eyes are bloodshot; it is a dislocation of a vertebra of his neck extending to his backbone which causes him to be unconscious of his two arms (and) his two legs. If, however, the middle vertebra of his neck is dislocated, it is an emissio seminis which befalls his phallus.

Diagnosis: Thou shouldst say concerning him: "One having a dislocation in a vertebra of his neck, while he is unconscious of his two legs and his two arms, and his urine dribbles. An ailment not to be treated."

Gloss: As for: "A dislocation in a vertebra of his neck," he is speaking of a separation of one vertebra of his neck from another, the flesh which is over it being uninjured; as one says, "It is wnh," concerning things which had been joined together, when one has been severed from another. »

 

Pour résumer, en cas d’atteinte traumatique vertébrale cervicale associée à une tétraplégie flasque et un relâchement des sphincters, il ne faut pas traiter et laisser le patient mourir.

 

Ce ne sont pas les dernières recommandations, rassurez-vous.

Ce texte recueilli sur le papyrus d’Edwin Smith date d’environ 1700 avant JC. Il s’agit d’un véritable traité médical basé sur l’expérience clinique et l’observation, et non sur des pratiques magiques ou chamaniques.

 

 

 

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Le Papyrus Edwin Smith (Wikipedia et ce site web)

Un petit résumé de médecine pharaonique.