London Medical Papyrus

The papyrus London 10059 (also medical papyrus London) is an ancient Egyptian medical papyrus. It is dated to the end of the 18th Dynasty ( around 1350 BC) and is of unknown origin. After a donation from the Royal Institution of London, he came in 1860 in the possession of the British Museum.

The papyrus is 2.10 m long, 17 cm high and is in pretty bad shape. It consists of 19 pages with 61 texts, of which 25 medical and the rest are magical content. As the Hearst Papyrus is a collection of manuscripts, however, significantly more spells occur. Overall, various diseases are treated, including tumors, burns and blindness. A short section deals with gynecology. Interestingly, a portion of the incantations to diseases in foreign languages ​​( Northwest Semitic and Cretan, apparently Minoan ) contains, under which falls the Asians disease. Many chapters have parallels to the Ebers Papyrus.