09 August 2009

"First steal a brain..."


The Ebers Papyrus (~1550 B.C.E.) offers the following prescription for compounding a medication for treating diseases of the eye:
Human brain, divide into its two halves, mix one half with honey, smear on the eye in the evening, dry the other half, mash, sift, smear on the eye in the morning.
Title credit and via to Scribal Terror.

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