The Elixir, and Other Stories

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Raphael and Lucas Cranach the Elder. A physician in an old German town has a remedy that may or may not be what he claims, and a household stakes everything on it. Ebers found the medical papyrus that bears his name — one of the oldest medical texts in existence — and dug in Egypt for years; the interest here is that a man who had ...