Edwin Smith Papyrus
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The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian medical text, named after Edwin Smith who bought it in 1862, and the oldest known surgical treatise on trauma. From a cited quotation in another text, it may have been known to ancient surgeons as the... Wikipedia
Date written: 1501 BC
Original language: Egyptian language
Discovered: Egypt
Present location: New York City, New York, United States
Size: length: 4.68 meters