Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia
| Autor: | Cale Johnson, J., Simkó, Krisztián |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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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 |
| Druh dokumentu: | book |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781501506574 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OAPEN Library |
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