Review Article

The Maze of the Cerebrospinal Fluid Discovery

Figure 5

At the bottom of the 2nd column of the Edwin Smith’s Papyrus, at the end of 24th line, and at the beginning of 25th one reading from left to right, we can see hieroglyphic signs (circled in blue) referring to cerebrospinal fluid (printed with permission of the New York Academy of Medicine).
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