Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — The Oldest Medical Work. [ARTICLE]

The Oldest Medical Work.

A translation .'Tnto German of the Egyptian medical manuscript acquired about twenty years acfb by George Ebers, the eminent Egyptologist and novelist, hus just been completed. Dr. Heinrich Joachim, the translator, believes that the work was written not later than 1550 B. C., and that parts of it are of still older date. It consists mainly of recipes, interspersed here and there with proverbs, but gives some advice upon the examination of pationts, and states the diseases indicated by certain symptoms. The original papyrus is a unique and important document, being the oldest medical work in the world. —[Trenton (N. J.) American.