Medicine in Ancient Egypt and Ethiopia

of cure and also had recourse very often to fasting and to other remedies, such as emetics, purgatives and diuretics. Some herbs found in the desert and still known to the Arabs Were used for medicinal purposes. The Egyptians thought themselves the first to invent the cure of diseases' Papyri have been found which contain many medical prescriptions for a variety of diseases, viz., those of the stomach, for broken bones, for the eye"-, for sores, and for various other ills, and even to keep away fleas and reptiles. These remedies were often quite good and successful, although they occasionally were rather apt to be akin to the illness to be cured. An interesting feature of ancient Egyptian medicine