Medical treatments often included both spells and prescriptions The following extracts from the London Medical Papyrus (10059) are treatments for bleeding

Prescription to prevent bleeding from a wound Fly excrement, red ochre To be given for it Words spoken as magic The mar-demon is to be seized by the nekhet-demon and vice-versa Yet it is the mar-demon that is to smite the nekhet-demon This against this

This spell, recited while applying the bandage, shows how the practitioner associates the disease with a mythological story The spell and bandage stem bleeding thought to cause a miscarriage

Another spell to repel bleeding Anubis comes forth, to drive back the Nile flood from treading the sanctuary of Tait What is in it is protected This spell is to be spoken over linen of rayaat weave, made into an amuletic knot and placed into the inside of...