Egyptian military medicine asserted a self-declared right to inspect patients’ bodies

Evidence

This resistance to the self-declared right of the medical authorities to scrutinize bodies in the search for any signs of disease was to be seen not only amongst soldiers in the camps but was also encountered by the authorities in Qaṣr al-‘Ainī hospital in Cairo whose patients were not spared this minute, often humiliating inspection. The following is Flaubert’s description of the syphilis ward in the hospital that he visited while touring Egypt in 1849: . — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1155

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