Disease in Babylonia Cuneiform Monographs 1st Edition by Irving Finkel, Markham Geller ISBN 978-9004124011 9004124012

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ISBN 10:  9004124012

ISBN 13: 978-9004124011

Author: Irving L. Finkel, Markham J. Geller

This collection of articles is the first collection of studies on the specific subject of disease in Babylonia, based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on published and unpublished cuneiform medical texts. The volume contains editions of unpublished materials as well as syntheses of information about specific diseases in Babylonia, such as fever, published here for the first time. The volume will be important for anyone interested in the history of ancient medicine as well as being an important contribution to Assyriology.

Table of contents: 

Article 1: Fevers in Babylonia – Marten Stol
Article 2: Between Magic and Medicine: Apropos of an Old Babylonian Therapeutic Text Against the Kurarum Disease – Nathan Wassermann
Article 3: Infantile and Childhood Convulsions and SA.GIG XXIX – J. V. Kinnier Wilson
Article 4: On Stroke and Facial Palsy in Babylonian Texts – J. V. Kinnier Wilson & E. H. Reynolds
Article 5: Hittite Rituals Against Threats and Other Diseases and Their Relationship to Mesopotamian Traditions – Volkert Haas
Article 6: The Hands of the Gods: Disease Names, and Divine Anger – Nils P. Heessel
Article 7: Epilepsy in Mesopotamia Reconsidered – Hector Avalos
Article 8: Lamaštu: Agent of a Specific Disease or a Generic Destroyer of Health? – Walter Farber
Article 9: Witchcraft, Impotence, and Indigestion – Call Abusch
Article 10: The Demon of the Roof – Theodore Kwasman

Article 11: Phlegm and Breath: Babylonian Contributions to Hippocratic Medicine – Markham J. Geller
Article 12: Women’s Medicines in Ancient Jewish Sources: Fertility Enhancers and Inhibitors – John M. Riddle
Article 13: Ancient and Contemporary Management in a Disease of Unknown Aetiology – Ellis Douek

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