ABSTRACT
In the mummy of a woman of the Byzantine period in Nubia a case of the adhesions of an old appendicitis was found. The thickened band of adhesion passed from the appendix and became attached to the opposite side of the pelvis.1 In the same cemetery a case of pleural adhesions was also recorded. In this case the left lung was collapsed and shrunken, and was firmly bound to the chest wall by a series of old adhesions. 2
Reference has already been made (p. 119) to the mummy of an aged priestess of Amen of the XXIst Dynasty. This woman had suffered from a pelvic abscess and had developed extensive bed-sores, which the embalmer had carefully hidden under neatly adjusted sheets of gazelle-skin leather (Fig. 37}.3
