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Title: Ancient Babylonian Medicine
Condition: New
Subtitle: Theory and Practice
Author: Markham J. Geller
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9781405126526
ISBN: 9781405126526
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Genre: Medicine
Topic: Ancient History, History
Release Date: 13/04/2010
Description: 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 scholars
• Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related
• Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymous
• Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses

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