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Healing touch: 7 plants that could hold the key to the future of medicine
Humans have utilized plants in medicine for thousands of years. As a matter of fact, the Sumerians were the first to record ...
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The Edwin Smith Papyrus Sheds Light on Ancient Egyptian Medicine
Missing Parts of the Papyrus The papyrus has helped scholars better understand ancient Egyptians’ understanding and practice of medicine. However, there are missing parts of the scroll and ongoing ...
Evidence of surgical tumor removal in ancient Egyptian skull is ‘milestone in the history of medicine’
Medicine in ancient Egypt, documented extensively in medical texts such as the Ebers Papyrus and the Kahun Papyrus, was ...
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How your diet can treat diseases
One of the oldest medical texts in the world is the Ebers Papyrus, a 110-page-long compilation ... who is widely regarded as the father of modern Western medicine (although scholars today think ...