Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia

The Nineveh Treatise

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J. Cale Johnson

▪Krisztián Simkó

Verlag:

De Gruyter

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: ZY9D5YP

EAN: 9781501515262

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 16.06.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 245.–

Beschreibung

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.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch
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Autor

J. Cale Johnson
Krisztián Simkó
European Research Council (ERC)

Kollektion

Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen

Auflage

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Format

Buch (Hardcover)

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