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But unlike the incantation series Serpu, the Ebers Papyrus also has extremely detailed recipes for plasters, pills, poultices, fumigations, suppositories, and enemas.
These categories are animal cures, medicines such as potions, fumigation, bloodletting, and pastes, flight from infected areas and persecution of marginalized communities, religious cures, and quarantine.
Vaccines took months to deploy, delayed by fundamental problems (the time needed to develop them) and trivial ones (American shipments had to wait for the pallets carrying vaccines to receive a fumigation certificate).