Band 11 Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Nineveh Treatise

J. Cale Johnson; Krisztián Simkó

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2024

Band 11 Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia

The Nineveh Treatise

J. Cale Johnson and Krisztián Simkó
Funded by: European Research Council (ERC)

Part of the multi-volume work Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501506574

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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.

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J. Cale Johnson, Freie Universität Berlin, and Krisztian Simko, British Museum, London.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	1
Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	2
Chapter 1 Introduction Open Access Download PDF	5
Chapter 2 Joins and Collations Open Access Download PDF	25
Chapter 3: Edition of STO 1 Open Access Download PDF	57
Chapter 4: Edition of STO 2 Open Access Download PDF	105
Chapter 5: Edition of STO 3 Open Access Download PDF	159
Chapter 6: Edition of STO 4 Open Access Download PDF	207
Chapter 7: Edition of STO 5 Open Access Download PDF	225
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	255
Index Open Access Download PDF	263

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Languages: English, Multiple languages
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in Ancient History, History of Science, History of Medicine, Assyriology, Semitic Languages
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 281
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
Keywords: Babylonian medicine; gastrointestinal illness; technical recipes; incantations

eBook

Published: July 1, 2024
ISBN: 9781501506574

Hardcover

Published: July 1, 2024
ISBN: 9781501515262