Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts

An anonymous reader writes with good news for people looking for an old cure for an old problem. Trying to ease a bad hangover? Wearing a necklace made from the leaves of a shrub called Alexandrian laurel would do the job, according to a newly translated Egyptian papyrus. The "drunken headache cure" appears in a 1,900-year-old text written in Greek and was discovered during the ongoing effort to translate more than half a million scraps of papyrus known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Housed at Oxford University's Sackler Library, the enormous collection of texts contains lost gospels, works by Sophocles and other Greek authors, public and personal records and medical treatises dating from the first century AD to the sixth century A.D.

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Another text in the collected wisdom

[goombah99]

Another text in this collected wisdom authoritatively cites Aristotle as saying that Pythagorus invented the Scroll Lock key. Literally. It's a little key you lock the scroll with.

Re:Another text in the collected wisdom

[ShanghaiBill]

Another text in this collected wisdom authoritatively cites Aristotle as saying that Pythagorus invented the Scroll Lock key. Literally. It's a little key you lock the scroll with.

No, that was Steven Chu, and I have a citation.

Re:damn

[Anonymous Coward]

Why they all went outside to collect leaves of the Alexandrian laurel bush of course.

"... medical treatises"

[Anonymous Coward]

Any baldness cures in there?

The obvious next step

[techno-vampire]

The next thing to do, of course, is to test the claim and see if it's true or not. I'm sure that you'll find lots of college students who are willing to give themselves hangovers in the name of science, especially if they're going to be paid for it.

Re: The obvious next step

[icebike]

The fact that the cure has been lost for two thousand years suggest that it is already been tried and found wanting.

Who would forget a cure for a hang over for Pete sake? Especially after writing it down!

Re: The obvious next step

[Anonymous Coward]

Who would forget a cure for a hang over for Pete sake?

Someone who's been drinking a lot?

Re:Please, BCE/CE, not BC/AD

[Guy Harris]

FUCK you and your god damned bullshit.

Fuck you culture warrior identity politics fuckface asshole prick.

BC/AD is part of the fucking culture ass grabbing fuck puke.

FUCK YOU, history changer Goebbels re-writer.

I vote for renaming them BFC ("Before Fucking Christ") and AFD ("Anno Fucking Domini").

Re:Please, BCE/CE, not BC/AD

[dwywit]

Now you've got me wondering just what one would do (have done?) before fucking christ.

Genuflect? Give the kiss of peace? (Oh, baby....) Take your clothes off, at least. A glass of wine, a couple of figs dipped in honey to set the mood.

What would mary magdalene have done BFC?

Re:Please, BCE/CE, not BC/AD

[will_die]

Sometimes it seems like militant atheists
Please get the terms right, the name of the religion is not militant atheism but evangelical atheism.

Re:Lost Gospels, Sophocles?

[Holi]

Actually choosing lost gospels over a hangover cure would be more appropriate for the Dark Ages.