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Renal and rectal diseases / by Markham J. Geller.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Geller, Markham J.
Series:
Babylonisch-Assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen
Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen ; 7
Language:
English
German
Subjects (All):
Rectum--Diseases.
Rectum.
Kidneys--Diseases.
Kidneys.
Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (368 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Berlin ; New York : Gruyter, 2005.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Die bisherigen Bände von Franz Köchers Reihe zu babylonisch-assyrischen Medizintexten enthalten eigenhändige Umzeichnungen der Keilschrifttafeln medizinischen Inhalts und ausführliche Indices zur Auflistung aller bekannten Parallelstellen. Der nun vorgelegte Band ediert alle Tafeln aus den Bänden 1 bis 6, die sich mit Erkrankungen der Niere und des Darmausgangs befassen. Viele der Quellen aus dem Britischen Museum sind aus Fragmenten bekannt, die R. Campbell Thompson in Kopie wiedergegeben hat (Assyrian Medical Texts, 1923). In der Zwischenzeit wurden jedoch zahlreiche joins erkannt, was eine Neubearbeitung notwendig machte. Die Tafeln zu Nieren- und Darmerkrankungen werden daher im vorliegenden Band kopiert und ediert. Nach Teilübersetzungen durch R. Campbell Thompson (1929 und 1934), die nach heutigem Standard zudem als unzulänglich gelten, wird der Großteil dieser medizinischen Texte Assyriologen und Medizinhistorikern hier erstmals zugänglich gemacht. Eine interessante Beobachtung dabei ist, welch geringe Rolle Magie und magische Rituale in dieser Sammlung medizinischer Heilanweisungen spielen.
Previous volumes of Franz Köcher's series on Babylonian and Assyrian medical literature have provided autograph copies of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages. The present volume edits all of the tablets listed in volumes 1-6 of Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin dealing with renal and rectal diseases. Many of the British Museum sources have been known from fragments, copied by R. Campbell Thompson in his Assyrian Medical Texts (1923), but many new joins have been made since that time, and hence tablets dealing with renal and rectal diseases have been copied and edited in the present volume. Although some of these medical texts have been previously translated by R. Campbell Thompson in 1929 and 1934, these translations are now generally considered to be inadequate by modern standards. Most of these medical texts are being made available to Assyriologists and medical historians for the first time. One interesting feature is how seldom magic and magical rituals feature within these medical recipes.
Contents:
Front matter
Table of contents
Preface
Introductory remarks on kidney and rectal disease
Manuscripts
Catalogue of tablets for BAM VII
Bibliography of sources
Kidney disease texts
Anus disease texts
Miscellaneous texts
Indices
PLATES
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
ISBN:
9783110914931
311091493X
OCLC:
979830998

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