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    The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus of herbal knowledge dating to c. 1550 BC (the late Second Intermediate Period...
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    Georg Moritz Ebers (1 March 1837 – 7 August 1898) was a German Egyptologist and novelist. He is best known for his purchase of the Ebers Papyrus, one of the...
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    The Ebers Papyrus was also purchased by Edwin Smith in 1862. It takes its name from Georg Ebers who purchased the papyrus in 1872. The papyrus dates...
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    combination of medicines and magic for healing. The ancient Egyptian Papyrus Ebers is one of the earliest known herbals; it dates to 1550 BCE and is based...
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    Cyperus papyrus, better known by the common names papyrus, papyrus sedge, paper reed, Indian matting plant, or Nile grass, is a species of aquatic flowering...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to London Medical Papyrus. Ebers Papyrus Edwin Smith Papyrus List of ancient Egyptian papyri "The Oldest Medical Books...
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    treatises on medicine (the Ebers Papyrus) and on surgery (the Edwin Smith papyrus), Egyptian mathematical treatises (the Rhind papyrus), and Egyptian folk tales...
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  • manager Georg Ebers (1837–1898), German Egyptologist and novelist Ebers Papyrus, an Ancient Egyptian papyrus purchased by Georg Ebers This page lists...
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  • time. The Ebers Papyrus is an Egyptian medical text and is the oldest known record of the human body, dating back to 3000 BC. The Ebers Papyrus describes...
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    medical documents, including the Ebers papyrus, the Edwin Smith Papyrus, the Hearst Papyrus, the London Medical Papyrus and others dating back as far as...
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    referring to diabetes mellitus) is thought to have been described in the Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 BC). Ayurvedic physicians (5th/6th century BC) first noted...
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    Use of castor oil as a laxative is attested to in the c. 1550 BCE Ebers Papyrus, and was in use several centuries earlier. Midwifery manuals from the...
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    medical formulations, has been traced back to the 1st century BC. The Papyrus Ebers from ancient Egypt, written around 1500 BC, contain a collection of...
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    "Haluppu-tree" could have been oak, poplar or willow. The ancient Egyptian Ebers Papyrus mentions willow (of uncertain species) in three remedies. One, as part...
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    Schuster, Ltd. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-312-20667-3. Stern LC (1889). Ebers G (ed.). Papyrus Ebers (in German). Vol. 2 (1 ed.). Leipzig: Bei S. Hirzel. OCLC 14785083...
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    variety of historical medicinal treatments, such as those described in Ebers Papyrus. Condiment Flavoring List of culinary herbs and spices List of spice...
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  • texts such as the Papyrus Ebers serve to illuminate and relieve some of the conjecture surrounding ancient herbal practices. The Papyrus consists of lists...
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    Mark-Jan. "Transliteration and translation of parts of Papyrus Ebers, on the basis of Möller". Ebers Papyrus. Mark-Jan Nederhof. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty...
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  • word identical with the corresponding chapters of the Ebers Papyrus". Iversen dated the papyrus as follows: "They are inscribed on both sides in two different...
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    descriptions are found in texts from Egypt (Edwin Smith Papyrus, Ebers Papyrus, Kahun Gynecological Papyrus), Mesopotamia (Diagnostic Handbook), India (Sushruta...
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    when smeared with other components including honey and olive oil. The Papyrus Ebers mentions Egyptians medicine recommends the creation of a vaginal contraceptive...
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    1097/00004836-198908000-00017. PMID 2668399. Ebbel, B. (1937). The Papyrus Ebers. Copenhagen: Levin and Munksgaard. pp. 30–32. Daly, Ann (1996). Fantasy...
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    reported that Cleopatra used clays to preserve her complexion. The Ebers Papyrus of about 1550 BC (but containing the tradition going back many centuries...
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    BCE.: 70  The papyrus is unique among the four principal medical papyri that survive today. While other papyri, such as the Ebers Papyrus and London Medical...
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    236–44. doi:10.1055/s-0032-1329535. PMC 3577612. PMID 24294126. The Papyrus Ebers, ca. 1550 BC, described the natural course of volvulus to be spontaneous...
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    prescriptions that appear in the Ebers Papyrus and other medical papyri which were apparently intended for lay doctors. This papyrus provides the most striking...
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    translation is available. The papyrus contains twenty-four pages of writing. Much of it is parallel to the Ebers Papyrus. Some of the contents deals with...
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  • in the earliest medical book known, the Ebers Papyrus (1500 B.C). Anatomy: In 1600 BCE, the Edwin Smith Papyrus, an Ancient Egyptian medical text, described...
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    especially the Ebers, Edwin Smith and Kahun Papyri. One of only two extant texts on creating a mummy is the Ritual of Embalming Papyrus. Mummification...
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  • of psychology and Timeline of psychotherapy articles. 1550 BCE The Ebers papyrus, one of the most important medical papyri of ancient Egypt, briefly...
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