Show an important translation of the papyrus abera the important medical which george ebers the well known german egyptologist und novelist acquired at lupsor eighteen or nineteen years ago only fragments the chapter on diseases of the eyes for instance have with professor help yet been translated duera shrank from translating the whole on the ground that medical knowledge was requisite for the task he expressed this opinion when he and ludwig stem edited the manuscript in 1875 A complete translation has now been made by a berlin medical man dr hemrich joachim who learned egyptian for the purpose and has been working at the translation for several years thanks to his labors the oldest medical work in the world is now accessible to all who can read german joachim thinks that it was written at latest 1550 years B C but that parts of it are of still older date it consists mainly of recipes interspersed here and there with proverbs in some passages advice as to the examination of patients is given in others the prognosis indicated by certain symptoms is stated the treatise shows that palpation of the abdomen waa practiced by the old egyptian physicians berlin cor london lancet |