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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Main Author: Geller, Markham J. (auth)
Other Authors: Panayotov, Strahil V. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2020
Series:Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen Band 10
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