Disease in Babylonia / edited by I.L. Finkel and M.J. Geller.

• Superior document: Cuneiform monographs, v. 36.
• TeilnehmendeR: Finkel, Irving L.; Geller, Markham J.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Cuneiform monographs ; 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Fevers in Babylonia /; Between magic and medicine—Apropos of an old babylonian therapeutic text against Kuràrum disease /; Infantile and childhood convulsions, and Sa.Gig XXIX /; On stroke and facial palsy in babylonian texts /; Hittite rituals against threats and other diseases and their relationship to the mesopotamian traditions /; The hands of the gods: Disease names, and divine anger /; Epilepsy in Mesopotamia reconsidered --- Hector Avalos /; Lamaštu—Agent of a specific disease or a generic destroyer of health? /; Witchcraft, impotence, and indigestion /; The demon of the roof /; Phlegm and breath—Babylonian contributions to hippocratic medicine /; Women’s medicines in ancient jewish sources: Fertility enhancers and inhibiters /; Ancient and contemporary management in a disease of unknown aetiology /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1281384259; 9786611384258; 9047404181
• ISSN: 0929-0052
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by I.L. Finkel and M.J. Geller.

This collection of articles is the first collection of studies on the specific subject of disease in Babylonia, based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on published and unpublished cuneiform medical texts. The volume contains editions of unpublished materials as well as syntheses of information about specific diseases in Babylonia, such as fever, published here for the first time. The volume will be important for anyone interested in the history of ancient medicine as well as being an important contribution to Assyriology.