This work focuses on pathogenic elements found in the
Ebers papyrus: a series of prescriptions that are
believed to be the remains of a "book of tumours"
which deals with what appear to have been benign
ganglionic masses, polyps, sebaceous cysts, varicose
veins and aneurysms. Discussion of this Treatise on
Tumours (paragraphs 857-877) includes the previous
probable identification of a disease, the analysis
carried out to date by several Egyptologists, and my
own interpretation which combines the linguistic
approach adopted by these scholars in the past, and
the medical observations of...