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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Autore principale: Geller, Markham J. (auth)
Altri autori: Panayotov, Strahil V. (auth)
Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2020
Serie:Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen
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Riassunto: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.
Descrizione fisica:1 electronic resource (454 p.)
ISBN:9781501506550
Accesso:Open Access