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The Alchemist, v.1, issue 3, Summer 1940
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THE ALCHEMIST Page 45 "THE OLDEST MEDICAL BOOK IN THE WORLD" by Walter James Daugherty "A discription of the Edwin Smith papyrus, an Egyptian Pharmacopoeia." Work has been started on a detailed discription and translation of the oldest medical book in the world. This is the Edwin Smith papyrus, which lay for centuries in the mummy case of an Egyptian physician, now belonging to the New York Historical Society. It contains clinical reports from as far back as the seventeenth century B.C., and also quotes from the "Book of Surgery and External Medicine" a standard work [amoun?] the ancient peoples of Egypt. The document is made of sheets of papyrus, thirteen inches high and sixteen inches wide, pasted together to make a scroll longer than a player-piano roll. Ten or twelve feet of the original twenty-five foot scroll has been lost or destroyed. Some of the prescriptions mentioned are very strange indeed. In one it is told the drug mentioned is of no strength unless gathered when there is a full moon. Amoung the ingredients mentioned there were rose and lotus blossoms, goose-fat, sycamore figs, [pomgranate?] flour, date sugar and
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THE ALCHEMIST Page 45 "THE OLDEST MEDICAL BOOK IN THE WORLD" by Walter James Daugherty "A discription of the Edwin Smith papyrus, an Egyptian Pharmacopoeia." Work has been started on a detailed discription and translation of the oldest medical book in the world. This is the Edwin Smith papyrus, which lay for centuries in the mummy case of an Egyptian physician, now belonging to the New York Historical Society. It contains clinical reports from as far back as the seventeenth century B.C., and also quotes from the "Book of Surgery and External Medicine" a standard work [amoun?] the ancient peoples of Egypt. The document is made of sheets of papyrus, thirteen inches high and sixteen inches wide, pasted together to make a scroll longer than a player-piano roll. Ten or twelve feet of the original twenty-five foot scroll has been lost or destroyed. Some of the prescriptions mentioned are very strange indeed. In one it is told the drug mentioned is of no strength unless gathered when there is a full moon. Amoung the ingredients mentioned there were rose and lotus blossoms, goose-fat, sycamore figs, [pomgranate?] flour, date sugar and
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