Everything about Ebers Papyrus totally explained
Examples of remedies in the Ebers Papyrus include:
Asthma: A mixture of herbs heated on a brick so that the sufferer could inhale their fumes.
; Belly : "For the evacuation of the belly: Cow's milk 1; grains 1; honey 1; mash, sift, cook; take in four portions."
Bowels : "To remedy the bowels: Melilot, 1; dates, 1; cook in oil; anoint sick part."
; Cancer : Recounting a "tumor against the god Xenus", it recommends "do thou nothing there against".
Clothing : Clothing may be protected from mice and rats by applying cat's fat.
; Death : Half an onion and the froth of beer was considered "a delightful remedy against death."
Modern history of the papyrus
Like the
Edwin Smith Papyrus, the Ebers Papyrus came into the possession of
Edwin Smith in 1862. The source of the papyrus is unknown, but it was said to have been found between the legs of a
mummy in the
Assassif district of the
Theban necropolis.
The papyrus remained in the collection of Edwin Smith until at least 1869 when there appeared, in the catalog of an antiquities dealer, an advertisement for "a large medical papyrus in the possession of Edwin Smith, an American farmer of
Luxor." (Breasted 1930)
The Papyrus was purchased in 1872 by the
German Egyptologist and novelist
Georg Ebers (born in
Berlin, 1837), after whom it's named. In 1875, Ebers published a
facsimile with an English-Latin vocabulary and introduction, but it wasn't translated until 1890, by H. Joachim. Ebers retired from his chair of Egyptology at
Leipzig on a pension and the papyrus remains in the University of Leipzig library.
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