- One of the earliest known records written around 1500 BC was the ebers.
- It is the best known and most important pharmaceutical record from ancient history.
- It contains 800 Prescriptions using 700 Drugs, of particular note in the papyrus is inclusion of quantities of substances, which were largely missing from Babylonian clay tablets.
- Many modern disease forms are also referred to in the ebers papyrus as gargles, in inhalations, suppositories, plasters, and lotions etc.