Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781501515262 |
| ISBN10: | 1501515268 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 287 pages |
| Size: | 280x210 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 20 Illustrations, black & white |
| 700 |
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Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Nineveh Treatise
Edition number and title: Band 11
Edition number: 1
Publisher: De Gruyter
Date of Publication: 14 July 2024
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Short description:
Franz Köcher's magnum opus on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine, which was envisioned to include cuneiform copies, translations, and commentary, was unfinished at his death in 2002 with six volumes of cuneiform copies accompanied by brief introductory comments and citation of parallels and duplicates. Publication of the series is being resumed, under the editorship of Robert Biggs and Marten Stol. The new volumes include full translations and philological commentary, thus making Babylonian and Assyrian medical texts accessible to historians of ancient medicine in up-to-date studies.
Long description:
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.
