Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Band 11 Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Nineveh Treatise

Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Band 11 Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Nineveh Treatise

J. Cale Johnson and Krisztián Simkó

• Funded by: European Research Council (ERC)

Part of the multi-volume work Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501506574

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.

• Languages: English, Multiple languages
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Copyright year: 2024
• Pages
  • Front matter: 6
  • Main content: 281
• Illustrations
  • Illustrations: 20
• Keywords: Babylonian medicine; gastrointestinal illness; technical recipes; incantations

eBook

• Published: July 1, 2024
• ISBN: 9781501506574

Hardcover

• Published: July 1, 2024
• ISBN: 9781501515262