At present, in a slightly modified form, it still figures at the top of prescriptions written daily in Great Britain (Rx)."(11) (11) John D.Comrie: Medicine among the Assyrians and Egyptians in 1500 B.C., Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1909, n.
s., II, 119.
For centuries Egyptian physicians had a great reputation, and in the Odyssey (Bk.

IV), Polydamna, the wife of Thonis, gives medicinal plants to Helen in Egypt--"a country producing an infinite number of drugs.

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where each physician possesses knowledge above all other men." Jeremiah (xlvi, 11) refers to the virgin daughter of Egypt, who should in vain use many medicines.