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Ebers Papyrus from National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov) (www.nlm.nih.gov).

Found in Egypt in the 1870s, the Georg Ebers Papyrus contains prescriptions written in hieroglyphics for over seven hundred remedies. This prescription for an asthma remedy is to be prepared as a mixture of herbs heated on a brick so that the sufferer could inhale their fumes.

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