The Brooklyn Papyrus (47.218.48 och 47.218.85, also known as the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus) is a medical papyrus papyrusscript dating from ancient Egypt and is one of the oldest preserved writings about medicine and ophiology. The manuscript is dated to around 450 BC and is today kept at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
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