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Diagnosis and therapy in Babylonian medicine
Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-egyptisch genootschap “Ex Oriente Lux” • 32 • Published In 1991 • Pages: 42-65
By: Stol, Marten.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Drawing on two surviving medical handbooks, the author discusses different medical practitioners (doctors, conjurors, and diviners), types and causes of diseases, and cures. “The Diagnostic Handbook” by Esagil-kīn-apli, a court scholar during the 2nd Dynasty of Isin (a relatively minor successor of the Middle Babylonian Kassite Dynasty), was used as the standard reference through the first millennium BC.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- Theory of disease
- Sorcery
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Medical therapy
- Medical personnel
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- Magicians and diviners
- Texts translated into english
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Babylonians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Linguist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1100–539 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iraq, eastern Syria
- NotesAdditional notes
- M. Stol
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Babylonia