Hernias Through the Sands of Time – From Pharaohs to Phoenicians

One of the first images of an individual with a hernia is seen in the picture to the left Phoenician terra-cotta figure showing an umbilical hernia in a woman in the fifth or fourth century BC.
In the sixth dynasty of Ptah-hotep, the relief picture to the left shows workers in the field with umbilical hernias.
The shown at the left is of the Ankhmahor tomb at Saqqara at 2500 BC shows a relief showing reduction of an inguinal hernia.
The mummy of Pharaoh Meneptah who rain around 1215 BC shows complete absence of the scrotum but not the penis. It is surmised that an Egyptian surgeon attempted cure for a hernia. The mummified remains of Ramses V, 1157 BC, shows a massive inguinal hernia.

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