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Gastrointestinal disease and its treatment in ancient Mesopotamia : the Nineveh treatise / J. Cale Johnson, Krisztián Simkó
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Justin Cale, 1971- author.
- Simkó, Krisztián, Author.
- Series:
- Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen ; Bd. 11.
- Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen ; Band 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gastrointestinal system--Diseases--Iraq--History--To 1500.
- Gastrointestinal system.
- Gastrointestinal system--Diseases.
- Iraq.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 281 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Joins and Collations
- Chapter 3: Edition of STO 1
- Chapter 4: Edition of STO 2
- Chapter 5: Edition of STO 3
- Chapter 6: Edition of STO 4
- Chapter 7: Edition of STO 5
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed August 11, 2025)
- Other Format:
- Print version Johnson, Justin Cale, 1971- Gastrointestinal disease and its treatment in ancient Mesopotamia
- ISBN:
- 9781501506574
- 1501506579
- 9781501506451
- 1501506455
- OCLC:
- 1453645240
- Access Restriction:
- Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access
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