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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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2020
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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 electronic resource (454 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781501506550 |
| Access: | Open Access |