This papyrus examines 48 cases: dislocations, wounds and fractures resulting from accidents, starting with those affecting the head, and gradually going down the body to the lower limbs.
The diagnosis was established after extraordinary precise observation had been made.
In conclusion it proposed three possibility: a doctor could act with full success, he could try , with some chance of success, or he stood no chance at all, in which case he should do nothing.
The techniques were numerous and varied. Fractures were properly set, splints were applied, and wound were sutured. There was a sort of adhesive plaster which worked wonders
with broken bones. perfectly healed fractures can be seen in numerous mummies.