Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts

The Nineveh Treatise

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Geller, Markham J.
Panayotov, Strahil V.
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European Research Council (ERC)
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English
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Abstract
This volume is the first English edition of the Nineveh Series on eye disease from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, 7th century BCE. It is the longest surviving ancient work on opthalmology, anticipating by centuries the Hippocratic treatise on the eye. The Nineveh series represents a systematic array of eye symptoms and therapies, also showing commonalities with Egyptian and Greco-Roman medicine.
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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63613
Keywords
Cuneiform medicine; eye disease; Mesopotamian therapy; opthalmology
DOI
10.1515/9781501506550
Publisher
De Gruyter
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http://www.degruyter.com/
Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2020
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Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen,
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Middle Eastern history
New Testaments
Indigenous religions, spiritual beliefs and mythologies of the Americas
History of medicine
Pages
454
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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