“Place in water, let stand for one night, strain through a cloth, and smear over [the eye] for four days; or, according to another prescription, paint it on [the eye] with a goose-feather.”[6] The Egyptian physician was called upon not only to heal his patients, but to beautify them, and we find prescriptions for removing scurf from the skin, for changing the colour of the skin, for making the skin smooth, and the following for removing wrinkles from the face:— 𓎡𓐰𓏏𓐰𓈖𓐰𓏏𓂧𓐰𓂋𓐰𓂡𓈎𓐰𓂋𓐰𓆑𓏲𓐰𓏼𓏌𓐰𓏤𓁷𓐰𓏤 “Another [prescription] for driving away wrinkles of the face.” 𓅮𓇌𓏏𓐰𓈒𓐰𓏼𓈖𓐰𓏏𓊹𓌣𓏏𓐰𓂋𓐰𓈒𓐱𓏼 Ball of incense 1 𓏠𓐰𓈖𓎛𓈒𓐰𓏼 Wax 1 𓆮𓏊𓐰𓏼𓇅𓆓𓐳𓏛 Fresh oil 1 𓎼𓇋𓏲𓆰𓐰𓏥 Cypress berries 1 [_Directions for use._] 𔌗𓏌𓐰𓂡𓏟𓏜𓂋𓐰𓂞𓁷𓐰𓏤𓎛𓋴𓐠𓄿𓈗𓏊𓐰𓏼𓂋𓐰𓂞𓂋𓐰𓁷𓐱𓏤𓇳𓐰𓏤𓏿𓁹𓐰𓌴𓁹𓄿𓄿𓎡 “Crush, and rub down and put in new milk and apply it to the face for six days. Take good heed [to this].”[7] The =population= of Egypt was, in 1897, 9,734,405 persons, of whom 8,978,775 were Muḥammadans, 25,200 Jews, and 730,162 Christians. The last census was taken on the 29th April, 1907, and the entire population of the country consisted of 11,272,000 persons, or nearly 16 per cent. more than in 1897. =The Egyptian Language= is not Semitic, although it possesses many characteristics which resemble those of the Semitic languages, but in a less developed form. Of all the views on the subject which have been held in recent years, the most plausible one is that which makes Egyptian belong to the group of Proto-Semitic languages. The Egyptian and the Semitic languages appear to have sprung from a common stock, from which they separated before their grammars and vocabularies were consolidated. The Egyptian language developed rapidly under circumstances of which nothing is known, and then, apparently, became crystallized; the Semitic language developed less rapidly, but continued to develope for centuries after the growth of the Egyptian language was arrested. To the period when Egyptian separated itself from the parent stock no date can be assigned, but it must have taken place some thousands of years before Christ. Later, under the XVIIIth and XIXth dynasties, B.C. 1550 to 1300, a large number of Semitic words were introduced into the language, and in such compositions as the “Travels of an Egyptian” (see page 70) a great many are transcribed into Egyptian characters. The Egyptian language as known to us appears in four divisions, viz.:— 1. The Egyptian of the Early Empire, which was studied and employed for literary purposes from about B.C. 4400 to about A.D. 200. 2. The Egyptian used in the ordinary business of life and for conversation, from about B.C. 2600 to 650. 3. The popular speech of the country, from about 600 or 500 B.C. to the end of the Roman Period.