| Name of papyrus |
Principal topic |
Content and scientific value |
Dating |
Volume
of the papyrus in
pages and meters |
State
of
Maintenance |
Place
where it is
preserved |
| p. Kahun |
Gynecology |
Systematic Silloge of 17 cases
of gynecological illnesses |
1850 B.C |
3 pages
1,14 m |
Fragmentary |
University College
London |
| p. Ramesseo |
Therapy
Medical |
Recipes for the treatment of ocular affections,
rheumatic and gynecological |
1850 B.C |
3,31 m |
Incomplete |
British Museum |
| p. Smith |
Surgery and
Traumatology |
Description of 48 cases of traumas of various type.
Notable the methodic scientific |
1550 B.C
copy of
2300 |
22 pages
4,70 m |
Entire
Incomplete |
Accademy of
Medicine
New York |
| p. Ebers |
Medicine
general |
Cases illnesses of the skin, of the eyes,
of the limbs. Essay of cardiology.
Intrusions of magic |
1550 B.C |
102 pages
20 m |
Entire
Incomplete |
University
of Lipsia |
| p. Hearst |
Therapy
medical |
260 recipes for the treatment of affections
regards: bowel, heart, bladder,
whitlows, abscesses and parassite |
1550 B.C |
18 pages
3,50 m |
Incomplete |
University
of Berkeley
California |
p. Berlino
3027 |
Pediatry |
2 recipes partly scientific partly magic |
1550 B.C |
15 pages
2,17 m |
Discreet |
State museum of
Berlin |
| p. Londra |
Therapy |
61 recipes for the treatment of ocular affections, gynecological |
1350 B.C |
19 pages
2,10 |
Fragmentary |
British Museum |
p Berlino
3038 |
Medicine
general |
Various recipes, prognosis of birth. Treatment in
scientific key and in magic key |
1300 B.C |
24 pages
5,20 m |
Almost entire |
State museum of
Berlin |
p. Chester-
Beatty VI |
Proctology |
40 recipes for anus-rectal affections.
Scientific treatment |
1200 B.C |
10 pages
1,35 m |
Incomplete |
British Museum |
p. Carlsberg
VIII |
Oculistics
Obstetrics |
Some recipes for copy ocular affections
from the p. Ebers, 7 prognoses of birth |
1200 B.C |
3 pages
0,27 m |
Fragmentary |
University of Copenhagen |
| p. Brooklin |
Zoology
Toxicology |
ª part Essay on the snakes
2ª part Antidotario of their poisons |
400 B.C |
|
Good
Incomplete |
Museum of Brooklin |
