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...Pennsylvania State College's Dr. Martin Levey, a specialist in the history of science, to figure out the materia medica which the ancient physician was prescribing. Most were dissolved in wine or beer, e.g.: "Grind to a powder pear-tree wood and the moon plant, then pour kushumma wine over it and let [plain] oil and hot cedar oil be spread over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kushumma & Kushippu | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

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