Ancient Babylonian Medicine

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24.95
book_author_name: 
Markham J. Geller
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Paperback
publisher: 
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
published_date: 
26/06/2015
isbn: 
9781119025528
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Books > History > Historical periods > Classical history
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Markham J. Geller|Paperback|John Wiley and Sons Ltd|26/06/2015
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9781119025528
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Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholarsAttempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were relatedAssigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymousRejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses

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