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Ancient Egyptian medical papyrus recommends human breast milk to treat eye disease – and it might actually work
A new interpretation of a 3,500-year-old medical text from Egypt suggests that ancient physicians might have bathed patients’ eyeballs in human breast milk to treat certain ophthalmic conditions. And ...
Ancient Egyptian physicians documented treatments on papyrus, revealing a sophisticated medical system. While most eye treatments involved herbal or mineral compounds, some scholars theorize breast ...
A new interpretation of a 3,500-year-old medical text from Egypt suggests that ancient physicians might have bathed patients' eyeballs in human breast milk to treat certain ophthalmic conditions. And ...
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