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The Elixir

Georg Ebers

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Summary

A physician in an old German town has a remedy that may or may not be what he claims, and a household stakes everything on it. Ebers found the medical papyrus that bears his name — one of the oldest medical texts in existence — and dug in Egypt for years; the interest here is that a man who had read the world's first prescriptions was writing about faith in medicine.
Available since: 08/19/2026.
Print length: 56 pages.

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