Mesopotamian eye disease texts: the Nineveh treatise
This volume is the first English edition of the Nineveh Series on eye disease from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, 7th century BCE. It is the longest surviving ancient work on opthalmology, anticipating by centuries the Hippocratic treatise on the eye. The Nineveh series represents a systematic a...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Geller, Markham J., 1949-, Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. Band 10, Mesopotamian eye disease texts] (2023) (Schreiber, Marvin Franziskus)
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| Series/Journal: | Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ninive
/ Cuneiform text
/ Ophthalmology
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| Further subjects: | B
History of Medicine
B New Testaments B Mesopotamian therapy B Biblical studies & exegesis B Middle Eastern history B Indigenous religions, spiritual beliefs and mythologies of the Americas B Cuneiform medicine B Ancient religions & mythologies B eye disease B opthalmology B Spring |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | This volume is the first English edition of the Nineveh Series on eye disease from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, 7th century BCE. It is the longest surviving ancient work on opthalmology, anticipating by centuries the Hippocratic treatise on the eye. The Nineveh series represents a systematic array of eye symptoms and therapies, also showing commonalities with Egyptian and Greco-Roman medicine |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (454 p.) |
| ISBN: | 1501506552 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 20.500.12854/63613 |