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Ancient Egyptian medicine
Medicine was a branch of advanced scribal learning. Egyptian doctors were of the highest social status and had a reputation throughout the ancient world. A knowledge of medicine was identifi…
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Examples of Medical Papyri in ancient Egypt
The Ebers Papyrus In 1873 Georg Ebers, a German Egyptologist, acquired in Thebes a papyrus which had been discovered in a tomb in about 1860. Originally it was a roll 20.72 metres long but divi…
