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Ancient Babylonian Medicine : Theory and Practice, Hardback Book

Ancient Babylonian Medicine : Theory and Practice Hardback

Part of the Ancient Cultures series

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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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