article_snippet.sent: The hangover treatment was one of 24 new medical texts that are the latest to be translated - the 101st volume of translations to be published.
article_snippet.sent: Among the documents, researchers at the University of Oxford and University College London have found 11 copies of known medical texts by Galen and Hippocrates alongside the new medical texts.
article_snippet.sent: researchers at the University of Oxford and University College London also found four documents that appeared to be doctors notes.
article_snippet.sent: Dr David Leith, a historian and research fellow at the University of Exeter who translated the medical papyrus, said: 'The remedies appear to cross what we might see as the boundary between magic and medicine - and although some ancient doctors disliked making use of "magical" remedies, this was far from always the case.'
article_snippet.sent: Around 10 per cent of the papyri have been found to be literary and many are private documents, codes, registers, official correspondence, tax records, bills, leases, horoscopes and inventories.
article_snippet.sent: Some were copies of ancient Greek medical texts but there were some original medical texts - which look more like magical spells in some ways. '
article_snippet.sent: Professor Vivian Nutton, a historian at University College London who was one of those taking part in the translations, described those taking part in the translations as 'the largest single collection of medical papyri to be published.'
article_snippet.sent: The medical documents all date from the first century AD to the sixth century AD.
article_snippet.sent: It’s natural to assume that most of these Oxyrhynchus papyri will have been bought or copied by doctors too for doctors own use. '
article_snippet.sent: Texts acted like a reference book for the ancient Egyptian medical practitioner, listing individual treatments for different ailments.