HOW THE PHARAOHS DIED
HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES
AND SAIALLPOX
ELLIOT SMITH’S POST MORTEM.
NEW YORK, Get. 20.
Professor G. Elliot Smith, the British Egyptologist, who is. a native of Grafton, N.S.W., said in a lecture here than an examination of the mummies had revealed that the Pharaohs of the Exodus had died of hardening of the arteries, while Ramoses the Fifth suffered from a skin affliction similar to smallpox. Cancer, rheumatism and mastoiditis were common 4000 years age, lie declared.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9852, 3 November 1924, Page 3
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