Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia

The Nineveh Treatise
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5015-1526-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen

Babylonian medicine is the most important corpus of ancient medicine prior to the Greeks. This volume provides a comprehensive picture of how gasrtrointestinal illness, jaundice and related fevers, as well as diarrhea were treated in ancient Mesopotamia. The editions include transliterations, straightforward translations and essential commentary, and are divided into three main sections: the standard corpus for the treatment of gastrointestinal illness in Royal Library in Nineveh (otherwise known as the sualu subcorpus), the related group of texts that attribute intestinal disturbances to malevolent ghosts and a third group of texts focused on diarrhea. In addition to the standard compendia, isolated precursor texts, which were incorporated into these compendia, are included here in appendices. This volume provides an overarching picture of the entire field of gastrointestinal illnesses and related conditions in ancient Mesopotamia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, J. Cale

Simkó, Krisztián

Simko, Krisztian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

J. Cale Johnson,
Freie Universität Berlin, and
Krisztian Simko,
British Museum, London.

J. Cale Johnson and Markham J. Geller, Freie Universität Berlin.