Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. Band 11, Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia ; The Nineveh Treatise /

This volume contains the first comprehensive edition of the most important medical compendium on gastrointestinal ailments, bile-induced diseases, and fever from ancient Mesopotamia: the Stomach Treatise from Ashurbanipal's royal library at Nineveh. Assembled three millennia ago from symptom de...

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Main Authors: Johnson, J. Cale (Author), Simkó, Krisztián (Author)
Other Authors: Heeßel, Nils P. (Editor), Köcher, Franz (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]
Series:Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen ; Band 11
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This volume contains the first comprehensive edition of the most important medical compendium on gastrointestinal ailments, bile-induced diseases, and fever from ancient Mesopotamia: the Stomach Treatise from Ashurbanipal's royal library at Nineveh. Assembled three millennia ago from symptom descriptions, drug recipes, incantations, and healing rituals, this treatise formed part of the only authoritative source of knowledge on therapeutic medicine at the time, the Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia. With numerous textual improvements based on first-hand examinations of the manuscripts and more than a dozen new joins, the Stomach Treatise now finds its rightful place alongside the Ebers Papyrus and the Greco-Roman medical traditions as one of the key representatives of ancient medical thought.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 281 pages).
ISBN:9781501506574
1501506579