Disease in Babylonia /
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based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on published and unpublished cuneiform medical texts.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 un...
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Language: English
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Boston :
Brill,
2007.
Series:
Cuneiform Monographs
36.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004222700.
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Call Number: R135.3 .D57 2007
- Preliminary material /
- I.L. Finkel and M.J. Geller
- Fevers in Babylonia /
- Marten Stol
- Between magic and medicine-Apropos of an old babylonian therapeutic text against Kuràrum disease /
- Nathan Wasserman
- Infantile and childhood convulsions, and Sa.Gig XXIX /
- J. V. Kinnier Wilson
- On stroke and facial palsy in babylonian texts /
- J. V. Kinnier Wilson and E. H. Reynolds
- Hittite rituals against threats and other diseases and their relationship to the mesopotamian traditions /
- V. Haas
- The hands of the gods: Disease names, and divine anger /
- Nils P. Heeßel
- Epilepsy in Mesopotamia reconsidered
- - Hector Avalos /
- I.L. Finkel and M.J. Geller
- Lamaštu-Agent of a specific disease or a generic destroyer of health? /
- Walter Farber
- Witchcraft, impotence, and indigestion /
- Tzvi Abusch
- The demon of the roof /
- T. Kwasman
- Phlegm and breath-Babylonian contributions to hippocratic medicine /
- M. J. Geller
- Women's medicines in ancient jewish sources: Fertility enhancers and inhibiters /
- John M. Riddle
- Ancient and contemporary management in a disease of unknown aetiology /
- Ellis Douek
- Index /
- I.L. Finkel and M.J. Geller.