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	Georg Moritz Ebers - LoveToKnow 1911
		GEORG MORITZ EBERS (1837-1898), German Egyptologist and novelist, was born in Berlin on the 1st of March 1837.
		In 1874 he edited the celebrated medical papyrus ("Papyrus Ebers") which he had discovered in Thebes (translation by H. Joachim, 1890).
		Ebers early conceived the idea of popularizing Egyptian lore by means of historical romances.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Georg_Moritz_Ebers (284 words)

	Ebers papyrus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ebers papyrus was purchased at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873–74 by Georg Ebers and is now in the library of the University of Leipzig, Germany.
		Ebers Papyrus treatment for asthma: a mixture of herbs heated on a brick so that the sufferer could inhale their fumes.
		Georg Ebers was a German Egyptologist and novelist born in Berlin, in 1837.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ebers_papyrus (481 words)

	Georg Ebers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Now in the library of the University of Leipzig, the Ebers papyrus is among the most important ancient Egyptian medical papyri.
		Ebers also turned his attention to other fields of historical fiction—especially the 16th century (Die Frau Bürgermeisterin, 1882; Die Gred, 1887)—without, however, attaining the success of his Egyptian novels.
		Ebers, der Forscher und Dichter (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1887).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georg_Ebers (391 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ebers papyrus
		The Ebers papyrus was purchased at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873–74 by Georg Ebers and is now in the library of the University of Leipzig, Germany.
		The Papyrus was purchased in 1872 by the German Egyptologist and novelist Georg Ebers (born in Berlin, 1837), for whom it is named.
		Ebers retired his chair at Leipzig on a pension and the papyrus remains at the University of Leipzig library.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ebers_papyrus (559 words)

	4Reference \|\| Georg Ebers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Georg Moritz Ebers (Berlin March 1, 1837-Tutzing, Bavaria August 7, 1898), German Egyptology and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca 1550 BCE, named for him (see Ebers papyrus) at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873-74.
		Now in the library of the University of Leipzig, the Ebers papyrus is the most important Egyptian medical papyrus and the oldest preserved medical document anywhere.
		Ebers also turned his attention to other fields of historical fiction--especially the 16th century (Die Frau Bürgermeisterin, 1882; Die Gred, 1887)--without, however, attaining the success of his Egyptian novels.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Georg_Ebers.html (387 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Medicine - Smith Papyrus - Ebers Papyrus
		Doctors and other medical personnel kept detailed notes (on papyrus) describing the condition encountered, and the treatment applied in all areas of medicine, including gynecology, bone surgery and eye complaints, the latter of which was very frequent in the dry, dusty climate of the country.
		It is unclear from whom the papyrus was purchased, but it was said to have been found between the legs of a mummy in the Assassif district of the Theben necropolis.
		The papyrus is dated to this period by a note on the recto which states the date as being the 29th year of the reign of Amenenhat III (c.
	www.crystalinks.com /egyptmedicine.html (3607 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ebers papyrus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Papyrus plant Cyperus papyrus at Kew Gardens, London Papyrus is an early form of paper made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that grows to 5 meters (15 ft) in height and was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt.
		Plates vi and vii of the Edwin Smith Papyrus at the Rare Book Room, New York Academy of Medicine The Edwin Smith papyrus is the worlds earliest known medical document, written around 1600 BC, but thought to be based on material from as early as 3000 BC.
		Jump to: navigation, search Ancient Egypt was a civilization in the Lower Nile Valley extending from as far south as Jebel Barkal, Napata [1], northward to the Mediterranean Sea, though varying in size throughout its history between circa 3200 BC and 332 BC, with the conquest of Alexander the Great.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ebers-papyrus (1324 words)

	Ebers papyrus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Ebers papyrus is written in (A cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests) hieratic script and preserves for us the most voluminous record of ancient Egyptian medicine known.
		The papyrus contains a "treatise on the (The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions pump blood through the body) heart." It notes that the heart is the center of the blood supply, with vessels attached for every member of the body.
		Ebers retired his chair at (A city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center) Leipzig on a pension (see (Click link for more info and facts about Georg Ebers) Georg Ebers).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/eb/ebers_papyrus.htm (500 words)

	The Henna Page - The Encyclopedia of Henna
		The Ebers papyrus was found in Thebes, in 1862 by Edwin Smith, and was subsequently acquired by University of Leipzig.
		In the Ebers Papyrus, henna is used for skin diseases, as opposed to respiratory, heart or circulatory diseases, so the use seems to be knowledgeable and appropriate.
		The Ebers Papyrus mentions of henna are intriguing in that they show careful observation of the differences in the henna plant according to where it is grown, and the plant part, and the resulting different effects.
	www.hennapage.com /henna/encyclopedia/medical/ebers.html (1606 words)

	Papyrus Ebers - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Papyrus Ebers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Papyrus Ebers starts with prayers in paragraphs 1–3, and in paragraphs 242–247 gives remedies made by the gods.
		The papyrus allows historians to understand the range of treatments used, as well as the level of knowledge held by Egyptian physicians.
		It is believed to be roughly contemporary with the Papyrus Edwin Smith, a list of 48 case histories and treatments.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Papyrus+Ebers (244 words)

	The Star Sothis and Egyptian Chronology
		The importance of the Ebers document is that it - dating as is generally thought close to the rise of the New Kingdom era and the corresponding beginning of the Late Bronze Age - has enabled the Sothic theorists to fix with precision the important New Kingdom phase in history.
		Though Ebers' choice of Amenhotep I as the pharaoh of the hieratic papyrus is the one that is generally accepted today, we have found that there was a tendency amongst Egyptologists in Ebers' day to regard the document as being a product, not of the New, but of the Old Kingdom.
		The fact recorded in the papyrus ''seems to be", he proposed, "that in the 9th year of a certain king, the 9th days of the several months of the vague year corresponded to the 1st days of the month of the fixed year".
	www.specialtyinterests.net /sothic_star2.html (15677 words)

	Ebers papyrus - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Ebers Papyrus, of about 1550 BCE, is the most important Egyptian medical papyrus and the oldest preserved medical document anywhere, the other main sources being the Edwin Smith papyrus (c.
		It was purchased at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873 by Georg Ebers and is now in the library of the University of Leipzig, Germany.
		Although it is full of incantations, foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons and other superstition, there is also evidence of a long tradition of empirical practice and observation.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Ebers_papyrus (187 words)

	Georg Ebers : The Story Of My Life From Childhood To Manhood : Introduction.
		Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her.
		Ebers continued to occupy his chair at the Leipsic University, but, while fulfilling admirably the many duties of a German professorship, he found time to write several of his novels.
		Ebers was born under a lucky star, and the pictures of his early home life, his restless student days at that romantic old seat of learning, Gottingen, are bright, vivacious, and full of colour.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.2/bookid.2499/sec.2 (574 words)

	4Reference \|\| Ebers papyrus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Ebers Papyrus, of about 1550 BCE, is the most important Egyptian medical papyrus and the oldest preserved medical document anywhere.
		It was purchased at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873 by Georg Ebers (q.v.
		The papyrus contains chapters on intestinal disease and parasites, eye and skin problems, contraception, diagnosis of pregnancy and other gynaecological matters, dentistry, intestinal parasites, and the surgical treatment of abscesses and tumors, bone-setting and burns.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Ebers_papyrus.html (217 words)

	GEORG EBERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ebers studierte zunächst Jura, interessierte sich jedoch immer stärker für das alte Ãgypten.
		Ebers führte zwei Forschungsreisen nach Ãgypten durch, auf denen er den nach ihm benannten Papyrus Ebers erwarb, ein umfangreiches medizinisches Handbuch aus der Mitte des 2.
		Papyrus Ebers, das hermetische Buch über die Arzneimittel der alten Ãgypter in hieratischer Schrift, Leipzig 1875
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/G/Georg_Ebers (237 words)

	The Ambassadors (Jan 2005) - SELECTED STUDIES - The Unveiled Ebers Papyrus
		The Ebers Papyrus, the most recent of the three texts, was purchased in Luxor by Edwin Smith in 1862 under the pretext that the papyrus was said to have been found between the legs of a mummy in the Assassif area of the necropolis of Thebes on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor.
		Ebers, which is comprised of 110-pages (or over 20-metres long) is by far the longest of the medical papyri.
		Ebers discusses treatment of skin diseases, intestinal worms, migraine, diseases of the eye, and unspecified diseases of the liver, etc. It contains paragraphs concerned with various injuries including burns, beating, flesh wounds and bites--both by man and by crocodile.
	www.ambassadors.net /archives/issue17/selectedstudy4.htm (819 words)

	ThothWeb - Egyptian Medical Texts
		The London Papyrus is claimed to be discovered by the priests of the temple of Tebmut in the sanctuary of the goddess.
		The Brooklyn papyrus deals exclusively with snakebites, from the XXX Dynasty (beginning of Ptolemaic period), and is housed in the Brooklyn Museum.
		Papyrus IV is very similar to the Kahun Papyrus; it contains many identical prescriptions and also is concerned with labour, the protection of the newborn child on the day of its birth and the prognostication of its viability.
	www.thothweb.com /content-302.html (2757 words)

	Medicine
		The doctor writing the papyrus was aware of the circulation of blood throughout the body and clearly recognised that the condition of the heart could be judged by the patient's pulse.
		This papyrus includes a vast experience in fractures that can only be acquired at a site where accidents were extremely numerous, for instance, as during the building of the pyramids.
		The oldest yet discovered, and dating from the reign of Amenemhat III, the Kahun Medical Papyrus describes methods of diagnosing pregnancy and the sex of the unborn, toothache during pregnancy, diseases and various ailments of women, and is particularly concerned with the womb and determination of fertility.
	www.egyptologyonline.com /Medicine.htm (634 words)

	Ebers papyrus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Methods are mentioned among the various formulas and remedies recorded in the Ebers papyrus, a compilation of Egyptian medical texts dating from 1550 BC.
		The papyrus plant was long-cultivated in the Nile delta region in Egypt and was collected for its stalk or stem, whose central pith was cut into thin strips, pressed together, and dried to form a smooth, thin writing surface.
		The Ebers Papyrus, compiled about 1500 BC, is one of the most famous of all pharmaceutical records.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031856?tocId=9031856 (821 words)

	The History of Diabetes - Ebers Papyrus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Ebers papyrus,the largest and most comprehensive, was was copied around 1550 BC, although some of the wording indicates that at least parts had a much earlier origin.
		It is named the Ebers papyrus (or papyrus Ebers) after the name of its owner, George Ebers, who purchased it in 1862.
		In this papyrus, there is a reference to excessive urination (polyuria), one of the principal symptoms of diabetes.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~abhu000/diabetes/ebers.html (443 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Medical Papyri
		This papyrus is said to date from 1550 BC and was taken from the tomb of a physician.
		The papyrus is 110 pages and dates back to 1534 BC to the reign of Amenhotep I. This document has a more haphazard order than the Smith papyrus and unlike that document it deals with remedies only of the skin, belly and other parts of the body.
		The papyrus was given to the Expedition in 1901 by a peasant, in exchange for some waste soil he required as fertilizer.
	indigo.ie /~marrya/papyri.html (1365 words)

	The Hearst Medical Papyrus
		The papyrus, which bears great resemblance to another Egyptian medical papyrus (the so–called Papyrus Ebers), entered Egyptology's Hall of Fame in 1905, when George Reisner published the plates of the papyrus with an introduction and vocabulary.
		While the contents of the papyrus have been studied extensively in the course of time with the help of the plates published by Reisner, the papyrus itself has never been the object of careful analysis.
		In the spring of 1901, a roll of papyrus was brought to the camp of the Hearst Egyptian Expedition near Der–el–Ballas by a peasant of the village as a mark of his thanks at being allowed to take sebach from our dump–heaps near the northern kom.
	ist-socrates.berkeley.edu /~tebtunis/collection/medical.html (574 words)

	Wonder Travel \| Egyptians Tour Guides
		With the advent of increasingly sophisticated medical techniques at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as those complex medical techniques in use today, the analysis of Egypt's veritable wealth of human remains provided a tremendous boost to the study of the state of disease and health in the ancient Nile Valley.
		Smith has also been reputed as advising upon, and even practicing, the forgery of antiquities.(Nunn 1996:26) Whatever his personal composition, it is to his credit that he immediately recognized the text for what it was and later carried out a tentative translation.
		Sometimes they take the form of recognizable symptoms such as an obstruction, but often may be a specific disease term such as wekhedu or aaa, the meaning of both of which remain quite obscure.
	www.freewebs.com /haythamgalal/papyrusinegypt.htm (2453 words)

	Medicine in Ancient Egypt
		In the papyrus “Ebers” - named after the man who obtained this text in Egypt 1873 - we find, for example, the heart referred to as the “seat of thinking”.
		In the Ebers papyrus we find the recommendation for women after giving birth for the application of steam infusions of a certain substance to restore a healthy tonicity so that the uterus “shall return to its own place”.
		This papyrus from the time between 2500 and 2000 B.C. was a real textbook of surgery and of medicine for the bones.
	www.ancient-egypt.de /html/medicine_in_ancient_egypt.html (2082 words)

	McClung Museum - Papyrus
		Papyrus is quite a fun plant and it will amaze you in how many ways it pervaded the lives of the ancients.
		Another type of papyrus amulet was the hypocephalus, a circular piece of new papyrus inscribed with Chapter 162 from the “Book of the Dead.” Symbolic of the sun, the protective disk was placed beneath the head of the mummy to insure the deceased would have abundant warmth in the afterworld as on earth.
		Among the numerous examples is the papyrus prominently featured in the wall painting of a marsh scene of fowling in the Dynasty XVIII Tomb of Nahkt at Thebes, which was recreated for the Egyptian Gallery of the McClung Museum.
	mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /research/reoccpap/reoccpr_pyrs.htm (4101 words)

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