Good morning Hugh,

I note your comment "Ironically I can't think of ... an archive of medical knowledge"

You forgot the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection at The New York Academy of Medicine (http://www.nyam.org/library/search-collections/archives/). It contains a wide range of archives and manuscripts, INCLUDING the Smith Papyrus, written around the 17th century BCE but probably based on material from a thousand years earlier. The text is a treatise on trauma surgery and consists of 48 cases dealing with wounds and trauma. Each case is laid out using a carefully prescribed formula: a description of the injury; diagnosis; prognosis; treatment; and further explanations of the case, which resemble footnotes.

A digital presentation of the Smith Papyrus is available from the National Library of Medicine (ANOTHER great archive of medical knowledge!) at http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/smith/smith.html.

Edwin Smith, an American dealer and collector of antiquities, acquired the papyrus in Egypt in 1862 (a relative of yours, perhaps?).

And the Louvre is primarily a museum, not an archive, though it does own "archival materials".

Warmest regards,

Fred
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