Ebers papyrus
The papyrus Ebers is one of the oldest medical treaties which reached us: it would have been written between 1500 and 1600 before our era, during the reign of Aménophis {{Ier}}.
Discovered by Edwin Smith with Louxor in 1862, it was bought then by the German Egyptologist Georg Ebers, with which it owes its name and its translation. It is currently preserved at the college library of Leipzig. It is also one of the longest found written documents of the ancient Egypt: it measures more than twenty meters length on thirty centimetres broad and contains 877 paragraphs, which describe many diseases in several branches of medicine (ophthalmology, gastro-enterology, gynecology…) and corresponding regulations.
The Egyptian pharmacopeia of the time called upon more than 700 substances, drawn for the majority from the vegetable kingdom: saffron, myrrh, aloe, sheets of ricinus, blue lotus, extracted from lily, juice of the soporific poppy, oil balsam tree, resin, incense, jusquiame, hemp, etc
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