Did Ancient Egyptian Doctors Use Breast Milk to Treat Eye Problems? A New Look at a 3,500-Year-Old Medical Mystery

Ancient Egyptian physicians documented treatments on papyrus, revealing a sophisticated medical system. While most eye ...
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Ancient egyptians likely used opiates regularly, researchers say

Archaeologists and toxicologists are revisiting a provocative idea about life along the Nile: that ancient Egyptians may have incorporated opium into daily and ritual practice far more routinely than ...
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New discovery suggests opium use in ancient cultures, from Xerxes to King Tut

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...
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A Biologist Spotlights The World’s First Antibiotics. Hint: It Was Found Growing On Ancient Egyptian Bread

While most people credit Alexander Fleming for the discovery of antibiotics, ancient texts suggest that he likely wasn’t the first to leverage bacteria as medicine. Long before Alexander Fleming’s ...
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Open Sesame! The Tomb of an Ancient Egyptian Sorcerer Surfaces

The tomb of an ancient Egyptian royal medical professional, who happens to have also had the role of magician, has been unearthed. The discovery of the tomb and the physician’s dual roles highlights ...
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Ancient Egyptian & Cnidian medicine: the relationship of their aetiological concepts of disease, by Robert O. Steuer and J.B. de C.M. Saunders

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CNIDIAN MEDICINE: THE RELATIONSHIP OF THEIR AETIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF DISEASE BY ROBERT O STEUER AND JB DE CM SAUNDERS ...
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Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers / translated from the German version by Cyril P. Bryan ; with an introd. by G. Elliot Smith

"An interpretation based upon Dr. Joachim's translation." Reprint of the 1930 ed. published by G. Bles, London under title: The Papyrus Ebers. siris_sil_53220 ...