Ancient Babylonian Medicine

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, <i>Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice</i> examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. <ul> <li>Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars</li> <li>Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related</li> <li>Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymous</li> <li>Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses</li> </ul>