User:Editinglad/Ebers Papyrus
Examples of medical remedies
[edit]Examples of remedies in the Ebers Papyrus include:
- Birth control: "To prevent conception, smear a paste of dates, acacia, and honey to wool and apply as a pessary."[1]
- Diabetes mellitus: "Drink a mixture including elderberry, asit plant fibres, milk, beer-swill, cucumber flowers, and green dates." It is not known what "asit" is.[2]
- Guinea-worm disease: "Wrap the emerging end of the worm around a stick and slowly pull it out." 3,500 years later, this remains the standard treatment.[3]
Editinglad's additions to the list:
Bleary eyes: Combine the following ingredients into a paste to apply to the bleary eyed patient. "Myrrh, Onions, Verdigris, and Cyperus from the North, with Antelope dung, Clear Oil, and Entrails of the qadit animal. This could be painted on with a Vulture's feather."[4]
To drive Blood from the eyes: create two substances one from powdered fruit of the donpalm and milk of a woman who has borne a son. The other Cow's Milk. Then in the morning bathe both eyes from the first mixture then wash the eyes with the Cow's milk four times for six days.[5]
Xanthelasma: Use a combination of red lead, Goose Grease, and Ginger to coat the eyes with.[6]
Pterygium: apply a mixture of red lead, powdered wood from Arabia, Iron from Apollonopolis parvis, Calamine, Egg of an ostrich, Saltpeter from upper Egypt, Sulfur, and honey to the eyes.[7]
Trichiasis: Combine Myrrh, Lizard's blood, Bat's Blood and then tear out the Hairs and Put thereon in order to make him well. Then use a mixture of Incense ground in lizard's dung, Cow's blood, Donkey's Blood, Pig's blood, Dog's blood, Stag's blood, Collyrium, and Incense to prevent the hair from growing back into the eye after being pulled out.[8]
Blindness: Use two eyes of a pig with the water removed from them, True Collyrium, red lead, and Wild Honey to create a powder and inject it into the ear. while mixing you must repeat "I HAVE BROUGHT THIS THING AND PUT IT IN ITS PLACE. THE CROCODILE IS WEAK AND POWER- LESS. (Twice)."[9]
Constipation: Chew bits of berry along with beer and it will relieve the constipation.[10]
Headaches: Combine the inner of an onion, fruit of the am tree, natron, setseft seeds, cooked bones of a swordfish, cooked redfish, cooked crayfish skull, honey, and abra ointment. Apply to the head for four days.[11]
Burn wound prevention: use a frog and warm it in oils and rub the afflicted spot, or warm an electric eel's head in oils and apply it to the burn site.[12]
Diabetes: take any of the following crystalline sugar, balsam of Peru, gum Arabic, Venice treacle, candied ginger and candied nutmeg.[13]
Miosis : small shavings of ebony wood and saltpeter.[13]
corneal opacity : place powdered granite in a cloth and place upon the afflicted eye.[13]
Bilharzia/Hookworm: warm the Jochauflegung of the sau wood in oil and give to the patient.[14]
To Strengthen the nervous system: use a poultice of flesh of a fat cow applied to the body part which needs the strengthening.[15]
Coryza: "Spit it out, thou Slime,Son of Slime: Grasp the bones, touch the skull, smear with tallow, give the patient, seven openings in the head, serve the god Ra, thank the god Thoth. Then I brought thy remedy for thee, thy drink for thee, to drive away, to heal it: Milk-of-a-Woman-who-has-Borne-a-Son and Fragrant Bread. The Foulness rises form out the Earth! The Foulness!(Four times). to be spoken over the Milk-of-a-Woman-who-has-Borne-a-Son and Fragrant Bread. put in the nose."[16]
Peer review response
[edit]I fixed the typos and added links to the more obscure ingredients to explain what they are if they had a wiki page to link to.
I will try to find some repellents and other remedies from the papyrus good idea for an addition.
I am keeping my voice in similar tense and voice for the section I am adding to so while a good point I will not be making any changes for it.
Added missing reference header to clarify the page.
References
[edit]- ^ "A Brief History of Birth Control: From early contraception to the birth of the Pill". Time. New York. May 3, 2010.
- ^ Roberts, Jacob (2015). "Sickening sweet". Distillations. 1 (4): 12–15. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ^ Palmer, Philip E.S.; Reeder, Maurice M. (2008) [First published 1981]. "Chapter 27: Guinea Worm Infection (Dracunculiasis)". The Imaging of Tropical Diseases: With Epidemiological, Pathological and Clinical Correlation (DVD ed.). Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. LCCN 99039417.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine: the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago: Ares Publishers. p. 95.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago: Ares Publisher. p. 96.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago: Ares Publisher. pp. 96–97.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago: Ares Publisher. pp. 100–101.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago: Ares Publisher. p. 102.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago: Ares Publisher. p. 104.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago : Ares Publisher. p. 16.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago: Ares Publishing. p. 60.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago: Ares Publisher. p. 68.
- ^ a b c Major, Ralph H. (1930). "The Papyrus Ebers". Annals of Medical History. 2 (5): 552. ISSN 0743-3131. PMC 7945839. PMID 33944361.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago: Ares Publishers. p. 120.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago: Ares Publisher. p. 114.
- ^ Smith, Grafton (1974). Ancient Egyptian medicine : the Papyrus Ebers. Chicago: Ares Publisher. p. 110.