Ancient Babylonian Medicine

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Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets,<i>Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice</i> examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C.<ul><li>Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars</li><li>Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related</li><li>Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymous</li><li>Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses</li></ul>

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<p><b>Markham J. Geller</b>is Professor of Semitic Languages at University College London and Professor for the History of Science at the Free University Berlin. He is the author<i>of Evil Demons: Canonical Utukk Lemntu Incantations</i> (2007) and<i>Melothesia in Babylonia</i> (2014), editor of<i>Melammu, the Ancient World in an Age of Globalization</i> (2014), and co-editor of<i>Disease in Babylonia</i>(2007) and<i>Imagining Creation</i>(2008).</p>

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