Pharmacology and drugs in ancient Egypt

Abstract

The ancient Egyptian was always keen on adapting nature to serve him and investing in all its plants, animals and minerals, as he excelled in the science of chemistry and pharmacology and the manufacture of pharmaceutical drugs to treat various diseases. The ancient Egyptian also reached the manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations: such as pills, tablets, swallows, infusions, enemas, alcoholic extracts from wines, ointments, paints, compound oils, drops, snuffs, pastes and fumes, as they were described in detail in the pharmaceutical papyri from the method of preparation and conditions of industry and use. The ancient Egyptian was always keen to adapt nature to his service. And investing everything in it from plants, animals and minerals, as he excelled in the science of chemistry and pharmacology, and the manufacture of pharmaceutical drugs to treat various diseases, and we knew this from the Ebers Papyrus and the Harris Papyrus.