Brooklyn Medical Papyrus

The Brooklyn Medical Papyrus (TM 58496 ), also often called the Traité d'Ophiologie after the Frence title of its edition, is an Egyptian papyrus acquired in 1899 by Wilbour and donated to the Brooklyn Museum, where it still is today.
It contains a medical treatise with a description of various types of snakes and the treament of their bites, based on the identification and the symptoms of the patient. Scorpion and spider bites are also included.