Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine
Subtitle: Ancient Sources, Translations, and Modern Medical Analyses
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: August 29, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 912
ISBN-13: 9780252029561
Subjects: History of medicine; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; BCE to c 500 CE; Medical / Nursing; History: World; History; History / Ancient / General; Ancient - General; Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian
First sentence: Ancient Mesopotamia, the "cradle of civilization," is one of the sources of our own Western medical tradition.