appendixjournal:The Ebers Papyrus, the first text to describe the common cold, from Ancient Egypt ci
appendixjournal:The Ebers Papyrus, the first text to describe the common cold, from Ancient Egypt circa 1,550 BCE. This is very cool, but it isn’t the Ebers Papyrus, it’s Recto Column 4 from the Edwin Smith Papyrus. The Edwin Smith Papyrus is housed at the New York Academy of Medicine, and images of it are hosted online at the U. S. National Library of Medicine website. To be clear this identification error is from the article that the OP links in their post and wasn’t introduced by the OP. (The Ebers Papyrus isn’t online, although this archived page from the University of Leipzig, which houses it, has a few images and a description in German)I don’t know anything about Egyptian medical practices, but I thought this (from the Edwin Smith Papyrus Wikipedia page) was interesting:While other papyri, such as the Ebers Papyrus and London Medical Papyrus, are medical texts based in magic, the Edwin Smith Papyrus presents a rational and scientific approach to medicine in ancient Egypt,[6]:58 in which medicine and magic do not conflict. Magic would be more prevalent had the cases of illness been mysterious, such as internal disease.[7]@appendixjournal is our new favorite blog, so you’ll be seeing a lot of their posts in our queue in the future! -- source link
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