Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia

The Nineveh Treatise

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Cale Johnson, J.
Simkó, Krisztián
Collection
European Research Council (ERC)
Language
English
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Abstract
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.
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https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/189405
Keywords
Babylonian medicine; gastrointestinal illness; technical recipes; incantations; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRR Other religions and spiritual beliefs::QRRT Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs::QRRT1 Indigenous religions, spiritual beliefs and mythologies of the Americas; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
DOI
10.1515/9781501506574
ISBN
9781501506574, 9781501515262, 9781501506451
Publisher
De Gruyter
Publisher website
http://www.degruyter.com/
Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2024
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Imprint
De Gruyter
Series
Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen,
Pages
281