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Studies in the Egyptian Medical Texts: IV (Continued) Author(s): Warren R. Dawson Source: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 20, No. 3/4 (Nov., 1934), pp. 185-188 Published by: Egypt Exploration Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3854738 Accessed: 22/02/2009 19:51 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ees. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
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STUDIES IN THE EGYPTIAN MEDICAL TEXTS-IV BY WARREN R. DAWSON (Continued from Journal, xx, 41-6) 15. The affection called Tq,' THISword has generally been translated "swelling" and sometimes "boil", "ulcer" or the like, but I believe it to mean a sharp or acute pain, popularly a." shooting pain". B. Ebbell (A.Z., LXIII, 115) came somewhat nearer the truth when he proposed "rheumatism" as the meaning of gtt, but his rendering does not fully account for all the occurrences of the word in the medical texts, although it may be appropriate to some few of them. The following are the instances of the word in the medical papyri: g in the groins." 1. E 51. 15 (294). " Beginning of the remedies for reducing (Frm (q ) gtt An external remedy in which a plant (which I shall attempt to identify in ? 17) is applied to the affected region, " then it (the pain) subsides immediately ". Thereis a duplicate of this remedy in H 3.4 (35), where i is corruptly written for stt. Perhaps hernia. 2. E 51. 19 (295). For gtt in the neck which causes pain when the head is inclined. External remedy. This oft-quoted passage is generally understood to refer to boils, but it is clearly a case of fibrositis, or "stiff-neck". 3. E 52. 6 (296). Here gtt is a symptom of some stomach trouble which makes the abdomen rigid. There is a duplicate in E 25. 3 (102), where gtt has wrongly the additional In both passages gtt is . determinative Z, doubtless borrowed from q'-t me. to is unknown which of the m as e meaning qualified
