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Tuberculosis spine mummy - Egypt

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Pott’s disease (tuberculosis of the spine) in an Egyptian mummy from the time of the 21. Dynasty (about 1000 BC). Source: Marc A. Ruffer: Studies in the Palaeopathology of Egypt, ed. by Roy L. Moodie, Chicago, 1921. (contains reprints of all Ruffer’s papers on palaeopathological subjects).

first 1910: Smith, G. Elliot and Ruffer, Marc A., 'Pott’sche Krankheit an einer Ägyptschen Mumie aus der Zeit der 21. Dynastie (Um 1000 V. Chr.)', in: Zur historischen Biologie der Krankheitserreger, ed. Sudhoff und Sticker, Heft 3, Giessen, 1910.

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