Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts : The Nineveh Treatise

• Tác giả: Markham J Geller, Strahil V Panayotov
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1501506550
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (454 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 217637
• Chủ đề: 1. Ancient religions & mythologies; 2. Biblical studies & exegesis; 3. History of medicine; 4. Middle Eastern history

Tóm tắt

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.