Surgical study ora near! that ceased to breathe some four thousand years ago is only remarkable to the uninitiated. To those versed in archaeology it is known that, modern anatomy has reached much further back to remote antiquity. There has been discovered in the course of research among the tombs of the Pharaohs the heart of Rameses 11.. so perfectly preserved that Professor Lortet. dean of the Lyons Faculty, was enabled to make a detailed study of it. It is explained, however, that lying under a stratum of eight yards of sand there have been found the bodies of a race long anterior to that of the Egyptians of the time of the Pharaohs, and it was still possible to studv the muscular fibres.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 4, 27 July 1907, Page 24
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124Untitled New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 4, 27 July 1907, Page 24
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