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The methods of diagnostician (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
Greece
medicine
Mesopotamia
Period
Greek Classical Age
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Greek philosophers and scholars
Neo-Assyrian texts

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Both types of passages where the diagnostician tries to get a reaction from the patient are unique in their respective contexts.

Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 16:
If for six days he is infected and on the seventh day he cannot breathe freely, they shall sprinkle water into his face. If his eyes do not open, he will die, (but) if his eyes open and close because of the water which they sprinkled on him (and) he cries, he will live.

Hippocratic Corpus, Affections 48:
This is how you can tell that he does not see: he does not blink when the finger is brought near.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 16
Hippocratic Corpus, Affections 48

Bibliography

Geller 2001-2002, 67Geller, Mark J. “West Meets East. Early Greek and Babylonian Diagnosis.” Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001-2002) 50-75.

Amar Annus


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