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Book Assyrian Medical Texts from the Originals in the British Museum

Download or read book Assyrian Medical Texts from the Originals in the British Museum written by Reginald Campbell Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Assyrian Medical Texts from the Originals in the British Museum

Download or read book Assyrian Medical Texts from the Originals in the British Museum written by Reginald Campbell Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Assyrian Medical Texts from the Originals in the British Museum

Download or read book Assyrian Medical Texts from the Originals in the British Museum written by Reginald Campbell Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Assyria Medical Texts from the Originals in the British Museum

Download or read book Assyria Medical Texts from the Originals in the British Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine

Download or read book Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine written by Jo Ann Scurlock and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, the pathbreaking medical contributions of the early Mesopotamians have been only vaguely understood. Due to the combined problems of an extinct language, gaps in the archeological record, the complexities of pharmacy and medicine, and the dispersion of ancient tablets throughout the museums of the world, it has been nearly impossible to get a clear and comprehensive view of what medicine was really like in ancient Mesopotamia. The collaboration of medical expert Burton R. Andersen and cuneiformist JoAnn Scurlock makes it finally possible to survey this collected corpus and discern magic from experimental medicine in Ashur, Babylon, and Nineveh. Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine is the first systematic study of all the available texts, which together reveal a level of medical knowledge not matched again until the nineteenth century A.D. Over the course of a millennium, these nations were able to develop tests, prepare drugs, and encourage public sanitation. Their careful observation and recording of data resulted in a description of symptoms so precise as to enable modern identification of numerous diseases and afflictions.

Book Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues

Download or read book Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues written by Ulrike Steinert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reconstruction of ancient Mesopotamian medical, ritual and omen compendia and their complex history is still characterised by many difficulties, debates and gaps due to fragmentary or unpublished evidence. This book offers the first complete edition of the Assur Medical Catalogue, an 8th or 7th century BCE list of therapeutic texts, which forms a core witness for the serialisation of medical compendia in the 1st millennium BCE. The volume presents detailed analyses of this and several other related catalogues of omen series and rituals, constituting the corpora of divination and healing disciplines. The contributions discuss links between catalogues and textual sources, providing new insights into the development of compendia between serialization, standardization and diversity of local traditions. Though its a novel corpus-based approach, this volume revolutionizes the current understanding of Mesopotamian medical texts and the healing disciplines of "conjurer" and "physician". The research presented here allows one to identify core text corpora for these disciplines, as well as areas of exchange and borrowings between them.

Book Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine

Download or read book Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine written by JoAnn Scurlock and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" html meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type" body An introductory guide for scholars and students of the ancient Near East and the history of medicine In this collection JoAnn Scurlock assembles and translates medical texts that provided instructions for ancient doctors and pharmacists. Scurlock unpacks the difficult, technical vocabulary that describes signs and symptoms as well as procedures and plants used in treatments. This fascinating material shines light on the development of medicine in the ancient Near East, yet these tablets were essentially inaccessible to anyone without an expertise in cuneiform. Scurlock’s work fills this gap by providing a key resource for teaching and research. Features: Accessible translations and transliterations for both specialists and non-specialists Texts include a range of historical periods and regions Therapeutic, pharmacological, and diagnostic texts

Book Translating Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East  Egypt  Greece and Rome

Download or read book Translating Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East Egypt Greece and Rome written by Annette Imhausen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient cultures have left written evidence of a variety of scientific texts. But how can/should they be translated? Is it possible to use modern concepts (and terminology) in their translation and which consequences result from this practice? Scholars of various disciplines discuss the practice of translating ancient scientific texts and present examples of these texts and their translations.

Book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office  United States Army

Download or read book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cannabis and the Soma Solution

Download or read book Cannabis and the Soma Solution written by Chris Bennett and published by Trine Day. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking to identify the plant origins of the early sacramental beverages Soma and Haoma, this study draws a connection between the psychoactive properties of these drinks and the widespread use of cannabis among Indo-Europeans during this time. Exploring the role of these libations as inspiration for the Indian Rig Veda and the Persian Avestan texts, this examination discusses the spread of cannabis use across Europe and Asia, the origins of the Soma and Haoma cults, and the shamanic origins of modern religion.

Book The Splintered Divine

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  • Author : Spencer L. Allen
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2015-03-05
  • ISBN : 1614512361
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book The Splintered Divine written by Spencer L. Allen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Ištar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal names in the Levant, and Yahweh names in Israel, and it is structured around four key questions: How did the ancients define what it meant to be a god - or more pragmatically, what kind of treatment did a personality or object need to receive in order to be considered a god by the ancients? Upon what bases and according to which texts do modern scholars determine when a personality or object is a god in an ancient culture? In what ways are deities with both first and last names treated the same and differently from deities with only first names? Under what circumstances are deities with common first names and different last names recognizable as distinct independent deities, and under what circumstances are they merely local manifestations of an overarching deity? The conclusions drawn about the singularity of local manifestations versus the multiplicity of independent deities are specific to each individual first name examined in accordance with the data and texts available for each divine first name.

Book Journal of the Society of Oriental Research

Download or read book Journal of the Society of Oriental Research written by Society of oriental research and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness  from Pre History to our Post Modern World

Download or read book An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness from Pre History to our Post Modern World written by Roy J. Shephard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 1095 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of “civilization.” It focuses on the health impacts of a growing understanding of medicine and physiology, and the emergence of a middle-class with the time and money to choose between active and passive leisure pursuits. The book reflects on urbanization and industrialization in relation to the need for public health measures, and the ever-diminishing physical demands of the work-place. It then evaluates the attitudes of prelates, politicians, philosophers and teachers at each stage of the process. Finally, the book explores professional and governmental initiatives to increase public involvement in active leisure through various school, worksite, recreational and sports programmes.

Book American Journal of Archaeology

Download or read book American Journal of Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Luzac   Co  s Oriental List

Download or read book Luzac Co s Oriental List written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has appendices.