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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Päätekijä: Geller, Markham J. (auth)
Muut tekijät: Panayotov, Strahil V. (auth)
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2020
Sarja:Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen Band 10
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Yhteenveto: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.
Ulkoasu:1 electronic resource (454 p.)
ISBN:9781501506550
Pääsy:Open Access