Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus

For other uses of this term, see Biblical Papyrus Chester Beatty.

The Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus is one of the Egyptian papyri about medicine that are preserved today. Treats of different spells and rituals aimed at curing migraine and offers some remedies useful in proctology.

It is dated around 1200 a. C. and although it forms part of Alfred Chester Beatty's collection of papyri

It should not be confused with the Biblical Papyrus Chester Beatty, very later and containing Biblical texts of Christian origin. Notes Bibliography

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