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Excerpt from The Medical Features of the Papyrus Ebers This is an age of inquiry in researches and excavation, with a constant craving for some new development to assist us in our studies. The last hundred years is the Niobe of civilization, not only in inventions and productions, but in the remarkable revelations which have materially assisted us in the wonderful development in science. However, whatever we have done to advance the history of civilization was not done by an easy task. When we look through the magnificent works of discoverers and pioneers, the fruit of hardship, trial and labor, we can not fail to be infected with some of the enthusiasm which animated those who were endowed with superior intelligence and the gift of knowledge to bring forth hidden treasures from the inmost bosom of the earth, and to transmit them to future generations. Of one of these it may well be said: "From the Orient to the Occident," great be thy name (George Ebers). The Anglo-Saxon nations, though renowned for deep thinking, and philosophizing in every branch of science and art, can not boast of a scholarship in bringing forth the first literature of the science of medicine. A third of a century has elapsed since George Ebers revealed the pages on medicine which were written some seven thousand years ago, and which were concealed for nearly four thousand years between the legs of a mummy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successful