PROF.EBERS, the well-known Egyptologist, whose death has recently been announced, will be long remembered in connection with the papyrus which bears his name. Dr. Ebers was born in 1837 at Berlin, and ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Humans have been fascinated by herbs and their uses for millennia. Some of the earliest written documents contained information about herbal remedies, and the use of herbs for medical treatment was ...

Many of us consider national health services as relatively new innovations of the 20th century, but they appear to have much older origins. Ancient texts uncovered among the human remains of an ...

MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN ANCIENT EGYPT.—In Science progress, for October, Dr. Warren R. Dawson maintains as the resu1t of a direct study of Egyptian. medical texts that the generally accepted accounts ...

At around 3,500 years old, the Ebers Papyrus is the oldest completely preserved medical manual in the world. Recipes were written down here on 18.6 meters in ancient Egypt. When Georg Ebers set out in ...