Edwin Smith Papyrus: photograph by the National Library of Medicine
Learn more about the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus at the links below:
You can also read this article by J. Trevor Hughes, published in Nature in 1988:
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.