Marc Armand Ruffer
Pathologist; professor of bacteriology at the Cairo medical school
- Dates
- 1859-1917 (source: Archaeopress, Palaeopathology in Egypt and Nubia (sample) )
- Chapters
- I. The River
What the film says
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In 1910 softened the dried kidneys of two Twentieth Dynasty mummies, sectioned them and examined them under the microscope.
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Found the fluke's calcified eggs, showing the parasite was present about three thousand years earlier.
On the timeline
Sources
Sources
- Ruffer 1910, Note on the presence of 'Bilharzia haematobia' in Egyptian mummies of the Twentieth Dynasty (BMJ 1910;1:16) Primary
- Ruffer 1921, Studies in the Palaeopathology of Egypt (ed. Moodie) Primary
- Archaeopress, Palaeopathology in Egypt and Nubia (sample) Secondary
- Egyptian canopic jars at the crossroad of medicine and archaeology (review) Secondary dead link