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Band 11 Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Nineveh Treatise
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J. Cale Johnson
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Funded by:
European Research Council (ERC)
Languages:
English, Multiple languages
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
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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.
Author / Editor information
J. Cale Johnson, Freie Universität Berlin, and Krisztian Simko, British Museum, London.
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 1, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781501506574
Hardcover published on:
July 1, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9781501515262
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
6
Main content:
281
Illustrations:
20
Keywords for this book
Babylonian medicine; gastrointestinal illness; technical recipes; incantations
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in Ancient History, History of Science, History of Medicine, Assyriology, Semitic Languages
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
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