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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 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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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues History of science

• Full title: Ancient Babylonian Medicine
• Subtitle: Theory and Practice
• Author: Markham J. Geller
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781119025528
• ISBN: 1119025524
• ID: 09144004
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 360 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 154 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. June 2015

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