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Historical Bibliography Updated: November 15, 2019

Der Londoner medizinische Papyrus (Brit. Museum 10 059) und der Papyrus Hearst in Transkription, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Herausgegeben von Walther Wreszinski. Mit Facsimile der Londoner Pap. auf 17 Lichtdrucktafeln.

Publication Details

Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1912 CE.

The London Medical Papyrus contains "61 recipes, of which 25 are classified as medical while the remainder are of magic.[1] The medical foci of the writing are skin complaints, eye complaints, bleeding[2] (predominantly with the intent of preventing miscarriage through magical methods) and burns." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#11097
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/13293
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLder-londoner-medizinische-papyrus

Geographic Context

Publication place: Leipzig

Mentioned in annotation: London