TY - CHAP
T1 - A time to extract and a time to compile
T2 - the therapeutic compendium tablet BM 78963
AU - Johnson, Justin
AU - Stadhouders, Henry
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The medical compendium BM 78963 presents us with a series of extracts drawn, in part, from standard handbooks for the treatment of digestive and intestinal difficulties as well as diseases of the oesophagus and lungs, two distinct forms of the suālu-disease, respiratory diseases like šīqu and uq(q)u and concludes with a rather involved case history (a combination of strangury, kidney and anus ailments, combined with two types of fever), and a man vomiting up blood. There are clear indications it was not simply of academic or intellectual interest, but rather was oriented to practical use in real world therapeutic procedures. This practical orientation is particularly visible in (i) its use of exact measurements for the ingredients in its recipes, (ii) elaborate descriptions of the processes of ingestion (including taking a medicine in several doses, sucking on lozenges and the like), and (iii) a series of global comments interspersed throughout the text that speak to the origin, domain of use or effectiveness of individual recipes.
AB - The medical compendium BM 78963 presents us with a series of extracts drawn, in part, from standard handbooks for the treatment of digestive and intestinal difficulties as well as diseases of the oesophagus and lungs, two distinct forms of the suālu-disease, respiratory diseases like šīqu and uq(q)u and concludes with a rather involved case history (a combination of strangury, kidney and anus ailments, combined with two types of fever), and a man vomiting up blood. There are clear indications it was not simply of academic or intellectual interest, but rather was oriented to practical use in real world therapeutic procedures. This practical orientation is particularly visible in (i) its use of exact measurements for the ingredients in its recipes, (ii) elaborate descriptions of the processes of ingestion (including taking a medicine in several doses, sucking on lozenges and the like), and (iii) a series of global comments interspersed throughout the text that speak to the origin, domain of use or effectiveness of individual recipes.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 978-90-04-36806-4
T3 - Ancient Magic and Divination
SP - 556
EP - 622
BT - Mesopotamian medicine and magic
A2 - V. Panayotov, Strahil
A2 - Vacín, Luděk
A2 - Trabich, Gene
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -