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P. Oxy. LXXX contains texts studied in the course of the project New Medical Texts from Oxyrhynchus (2007-10), funded by the Wellcome Trust. These include known medical texts by Hippocrates, Dioscorides and Galen, but also new material: texts from 1st to 3rd/4th centuries on acute diseases, medical recipes, surgical texts, and doctors' reports.