article_snippet.sent: Texts found on the site of Deir el-Medina identify a workman on the crew designated as the 'swnw', or physician.
article_snippet.sent: a workman on the crew designated as the 'swnw', or physician was given an assistant and both were allotted days off to prepare medicine and take care of colleagues.
article_snippet.sent: a workman on the crew designated as the 'swnw', or physician would have most likely treated the workmen with remedies and incantations found in a workman on the crew designated as the 'swnw', or physician medical papyrus.
article_snippet.sent: Another treatment, this time for intestinal worms, required a workman on the crew designated as the 'swnw', or physician to cook the cores of dates and a desert plant called colocynth together in sweet beer.
article_snippet.sent: a workman on the crew designated as the 'swnw', or physician would then have sieved the warm liquid and gave the warm liquid to the patient to drink for four days.