TY - BOOK AU - Geller,Markham J. AU - Panayotov,Strahil V. TI - Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts: The Nineveh Treatise T2 - Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen SN - 9781501506550 PY - 2020/// CY - Berlin/Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Ancient religions & mythologies KW - bicssc KW - Biblical studies & exegesis KW - History of medicine KW - Middle Eastern history KW - Cuneiform medicine KW - eye disease KW - Mesopotamian therapy KW - opthalmology N1 - Open Access N2 - This volume is the first English edition of the Nineveh Series on eye disease from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, 7th century BCE. It is the longest surviving ancient work on opthalmology, anticipating by centuries the Hippocratic treatise on the eye. The Nineveh series represents a systematic array of eye symptoms and therapies, also showing commonalities with Egyptian and Greco-Roman medicine UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/77c28790-79ab-413b-8c45-e3fb65b39fa5/9781501506550.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46649 ER -