Disease in Babylonia / edited by I.L. Finkel and M.J. Geller.

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TextSeries: Cuneiform monographs ; 36.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages)Content type:

text

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9789047404187
9047404181
1281384259
9781281384256

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Disease in Babylonia.DDC classification:

610.9 22

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R135.3 .D57 2007eb

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2007 D-772
WZ 51

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44.01

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Cover -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- FEVERS IN BABYLONIA -- Marten Stol -- BETWEEN MAGIC AND MEDICINE8212;APROPOS OF AN OLD BABYLONIAN THERAPEUTIC TEXT AGAINST KUR192;RUM DISEASE -- Nathan Wasserman -- INFANTILE AND CHILDHOOD CONVULSIONS, AND SA. GIG XXIX -- J.V. Kinnier Wilson -- ON STROKE AND FACIAL PALSY IN BABYLONIAN TEXTS -- J.V. Kinnier Wilson and E.H. Reynolds -- HITTITE RITUALS AGAINST THREATS AND OTHER DISEASES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN TRADITIONS -- V. Haas -- THE HANDS OF THE GODS: DISEASE NAMES, AND DIVINE ANGER -- Nils P. Hee223;el -- EPILEPSY IN MESOPOTAMIA RECONSIDERED -- Hector Avalos -- LAMA8221;TU8212;AGENT OF A SPECIFIC DISEASE OR A GENERIC DESTROYER OF HEALTH? -- Walter Farber -- WITCHCRAFT, IMPOTENCE, AND INDIGESTION -- Tzvi Abusch -- THE DEMON OF THE ROOF -- T. Kwasman -- PHLEGM AND BREATH8212;BABYLONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE -- M.J. Geller -- WOMEN8217;S MEDICINES IN ANCIENT JEWISH SOURCES: FERTILITY ENHANCERS AND INHIBITERS -- John M. Riddle -- ANCIENT & CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT IN A DISEASE OF UNKNOWN AETIOLOGY -- Ellis Douek.

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Summary: This collection of articles is the first collection of studies on the specific subject of disease in Babylonia, based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on published and unpublished cuneiform medical texts. The volume contains editions of unpublished materials as well as syntheses of information about specific diseases in Babylonia, such as fever, published here for the first time. The volume will be important for anyone interested in the history of ancient medicine as well as being an important contribution to Assyriology.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This collection of articles is the first collection of studies on the specific subject of disease in Babylonia, based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on published and unpublished cuneiform medical texts. The volume contains editions of unpublished materials as well as syntheses of information about specific diseases in Babylonia, such as fever, published here for the first time. The volume will be important for anyone interested in the history of ancient medicine as well as being an important contribution to Assyriology.

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