Disease in BabyloniaIrving L. Finkel, Markham J. Geller BRILL, 2007 - 226 páginas 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based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on published and unpublished cuneiform medical texts. The volume contains editions of unpublished materials as well as syntheses of information about specific diseases in Babylonia, such as fever, published here for the first time.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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Between Magic and MedicineApropos of an | 40 |
Infantile and Childhood Convulsions and SA GIG XXIX | 62 |
Hittite Rituals against Threats and Other Diseases | 100 |
Disease Names and Divine Anger | 120 |
LamatuAgent of a Specific Disease or a Generic | 137 |
The Demon of the Roof | 160 |
Phlegm and BreathBabylonian Contributions to Hippocratic | 187 |
Fertility | 200 |
Ancient and Contemporary Management in a Disease | 215 |
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