Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia The Nineveh Treatise
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ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter De Gruyter [Imprint] 2024Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (281 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781501506451
- 9781501506574
- 9781501515262
- Babylonian medicine
- M Medicine and Nursing
- MB Medicine
- MBX History of medicine
- N History and Archaeology
- NH History
- NHG Middle Eastern history
- Q Philosophy and Religion
- QR Religion and beliefs
- QRR Other religions and spiritual beliefs
- QRRT Indigenous
- QRRT1 Indigenous religions
- ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs
- gastrointestinal illness
- general issues
- incantations
- spiritual beliefs and mythologies of the Americas
- technical recipes
- thema EDItEUR
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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.
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