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Recipes against ardent fever (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



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

Text
Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 31:
If ditto (= sun-heat has overheated him), he pulsates, (sun-heat) pushes him away and he has a burning fever (ummu ṣarhu), that man will suffer for 14 days. In order not to prolong (the condition), place him into cold water and keep him (there) until his insides continually shiver, then rub him with hot oils and he will get better.

Hippocratic Corpus, Affections 11:
(Remedy for ardent fever:) It benefits the patient to administer cooling agents both to the cavity and externally on the surface of the body, but taking care that he does not suffer a chill.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 31
Hippocratic Corpus, Affections 11

Bibliography

Geller 2001-2002, 69Geller, Mark J. “West Meets East. Early Greek and Babylonian Diagnosis.” Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001-2002) 50-75.
Heessel 2000, 343 6-8Heessel, N. Babylonisch-assyrische Diagnostik. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 43. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag 2000.

Amar Annus


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