Disease in Babylonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disease in Babylonia write by Irving L. Finkel. This book was released on 2007. Disease in Babylonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present collection of articles on disease in Babylonia is the first such volume to appear providing detailed information derived from published and unpublished medical texts in cuneiform script from the second and first millennia BC.
Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine
Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine write by Jo Ann Scurlock. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To date, the pathbreaking medical contributions of the early Mesopotamians have been only vaguely understood. Due to the combined problems of an extinct language, gaps in the archeological record, the complexities of pharmacy and medicine, and the dispersion of ancient tablets throughout the museums of the world, it has been nearly impossible to get a clear and comprehensive view of what medicine was really like in ancient Mesopotamia. The collaboration of medical expert Burton R. Andersen and cuneiformist JoAnn Scurlock makes it finally possible to survey this collected corpus and discern magic from experimental medicine in Ashur, Babylon, and Nineveh. Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine is the first systematic study of all the available texts, which together reveal a level of medical knowledge not matched again until the nineteenth century A.D. Over the course of a millennium, these nations were able to develop tests, prepare drugs, and encourage public sanitation. Their careful observation and recording of data resulted in a description of symptoms so precise as to enable modern identification of numerous diseases and afflictions.
Epilepsy in Babylonia
Epilepsy in Babylonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epilepsy in Babylonia write by Marten Stol. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Epilepsy in Babylonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stol's comprehensive exploration of the Babylonians' conception and treatment of epilepsy adds a new chapter to the history of this ancient disease. The author presents the sources, examines the terminology and places epilepsy in context among kindred illnesses. A full edition (transliteration, translation, commentary and cuneiform copy) of the relevant parts of the Diagnostic Handbook is included. According to the Ancients, epileptics are 'struck by the moon'. An examination of the relationship between epilepsy and the moon yields surprising results. This volume deals with material that was unavailable to O. Temkin, author of the classic "The Falling Sickness; A history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginning of modern neurology," (1971). It show that traditional views of the Ancient Near East lived on among the Greeks and Romans.
Ancient Babylonian Medicine
Ancient Babylonian Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Babylonian Medicine write by Markham J. Geller. This book was released on 2015-07-21. Ancient Babylonian Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymous Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses
The Healing Goddess Gula
The Healing Goddess Gula - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Healing Goddess Gula write by Barbara Böck. This book was released on 2013-10-10. The Healing Goddess Gula available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Providing a comprehensive examination of the traits and areas of authority Ancient Babylonians attributed to their healing goddess, this book draws on a wide range of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources, including god lists, literary compositions, lexical lists, prognostic texts, incantations, and prescriptions. Analysing the use of selected metaphors associated with the goddess, a new perspective is offered on the explanation for disease as well as the motivation for particular treatments. Special chapters deal with the cuneiform handbook on prognosis and diagnosis of diseases, medical incantations appealing to the healing goddess, and the medicinal plants attributed to her. For the first time a body of evidence for the use of simple drugs is brought together, elaborating on specific plant profiles. The result is a volume that challenges many long-held assumptions concerning the specialized cuneiform medical literature and takes a fresh look on the nature of Ancient Babylonian healing.
