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Of Egyptian doctors: "... their skill was recognised worldwide. When the sister of the Hittite king needed fertility treatment she turned to Egypt. It was left to the blunt-talking Ramses II to point out that the doctors were unlikely to be successful, as she was almost 60 years old."

(Review by Joyce Tyldeseley in New Scientist (21 May 2005) of Medicine in the Days of the Pharoahs by Bruno Halioua and Bernard Ziskind, Belknap Press/Harvard University Press.)