Gum acacia when dissolved produces lactic acid, a very effective known spermicidal. Ra assisted by midwives. They were visited by pregnant women seeking divine help, rather than being a birth place. Only when the mother failed to feed her infant, they resorted to cow milk. Raw meat was applied on the first day, subsequently replaced by dressing of astringent herbs, honey and butter or bread.
Raw meat is known to be an efficient way to prevent bleeding.
The application of sour or moldy bread was practiced in European medicine until the Renaissance. In AD 1928, Alexander Fleming extracted Penicillin from moulds, and 17 years later was awarded the Nobel Prize of Medicine. At least 39 mummies with cancer have been identified. Breast cancer was also described, but was non-curable. If thou examinst a man having bulging tumors on his breast, and if thou puttst thy hand upon his breast upon these tumors, and thou findst them very cool, there being no fever at all when thy hand touches him, they have no granulation, they form no fluid, they do not generate secretions of fluid, and they are bulging to thy hand.