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Title Advances in Mesopotamian medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates : proceedings of the International Conference "Oeil Malade et Mauvais Oeil", Collège de France, Paris, 23rd June 2006 / edited by Annie Attia and Gilles Buisson ; with the collaboration of Markham J. Geller
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 161 pages) : illustrations
Series Cuneiform monographs, 0929-0052 ; v. 37
Cuneiform monographs ; 37.
Contents Introduction: "Oeil malade et mauvais oeil" / Markham J. Geller -- Babylonian physician Rabâ-ša-Marduk. Another look at physicians and exorcists in the Ancient Near East / Nils P. Heessel -- "To be ill" in Akkadian: the verb salā'u and the substantive sili'tu / Marten Stol -- Some notes on medical information outside the medical corpora / Martin Worthington -- Cuneiform tablets on eye diseases: Babylonian sources in relation to the series DIŠ NA IGI"-šú GIG / Jeanette C. Fincke -- On medical technology in Ancient Mesopotamia / Barbara Böck -- Ancienneté de la médecine hippocratique: un essai de bilan / Paul Demont
Summary This volume, which originated with a conference at the Collège de France, comprises articles on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes One chapter in French
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Subject Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian -- Congresses
Medicine -- History.
History of Medicine
History, Ancient
history of medicine.
MEDICAL -- History.
Medicine
Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian
Medizin
Geschichte
Medizin.
Mesopotamien.
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
History
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Attia, Annie.
Buisson, Gilles.
International Conference "Oeil malade et mauvais oeil" (2006 : Collège de France)
ISBN 9789004178762
9004178767
9789047441113
9047441117
1282950738
9781282950733