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

This volume contains 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, the Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia. With numerous textual improvements based on first-hand examinations of the manuscripts and more than a dozen new joins, the Stomach Treatise now finds its rightful place alongside the Ebers Papyrus and the Greco-Roman medical traditions as one of the key representatives of ancient medical thought.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: J Cal Johnson, J Cale Johnson, J. Cale Johnson, Krisztian Simko, Krisztián Simkó
• Assisted by: Markham J. Geller (Editor), J. Cale Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781501515262
• ISBN: 978-1-5015-1526-2
• No. of pages: 281
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 26 mm x 280 mm
• Weight: 958 g
• Illustrations: 20 b/w ill.
• Sets: Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen; Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und U
• Series: Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General