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In Medicine in Ancient Assur Troels Pank Arbøll offers a microhistorical study of a single exorcist named Kiṣir-Aššur who practiced medical and magical healing in the ancient city of Assur (modern northern Iraq) in the 7th century BCE. The book provides the first detailed analysis of a healer's education and practice in ancient Mesopotamia based on at least 73 texts assigned to specific stages of his career. By drawing on a microhistorical framework, the study aims at significantly improving our understanding of the functional aspects of texts in their specialist environment. Furthermore, the work situates Kiṣir-Aššur as one of the earliest healers in world history for whom we have such details pertaining to his career originating from his own time.

Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Medicine, Ancient. --- Ancient medicine --- Medicine --- Assyro-Babylonian medicine --- Medicine, Ancient --- History of medicine

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The present volume offers the first critical edition of Book I of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based on all extant Arabic textual witnesses, including the Arabic secondary transmission.The translation of this text became a crucial source for the development of medicine in the Islamic world, especially in the nascent field of clinical medicine; the number and extent of "ations in later Arabic medical works and the wide range of didactic writings created on the basis of this translation attest to its importance.The English translation, which aims to convey some of the favour of the Arabic translation, comes with extensive notes on the differences between the Greek original and the Arabic translation. A thorough comparison between the two versions of the commentary provided important insights into the translation style and terminology of Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his associates.

Medicine --- Medicine, Greek and Roman. --- Hippocrates. --- Greek medicine --- Medicine, Roman --- Medicine, Unani --- Roman medicine --- Tibb (Medicine) --- Unani medicine --- Unani-Tibb (Medicine) --- Basic medical science --- History and ethics of medicine. --- Medicine, Ancient --- Health Workforce --- Epidemics (Hippocrates) --- Epidemiorum libri (Hippocrates)

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Rufus of Ephesus' (fl. ca. AD 100) On Melancholy deals with a medical condition oscillating between madness, depression, and bouts of great creativity. This collection of the Greek, Latin, and Arabic fragments makes this text easily available for the first time.

Melancholy --- Medicine, Greek and Roman. --- Mental Disorders. --- Rufus, --- Medicine, Greek and Roman --- Greek medicine --- Medicine, Roman --- Medicine, Unani --- Roman medicine --- Tibb (Medicine) --- Unani medicine --- Unani-Tibb (Medicine) --- Medicine, Ancient --- Philosophy / Epistemology --- Religion --- Religion / History --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- medicine --- history --- madness --- melancholy --- Kirchengeschichte --- Editionen, Textausgaben --- Studienliteratur --- Antike --- Wissenschaftsgeschichte --- Alte Geschichte --- Allgemeines --- Anthropologie --- Erkenntnistheorie --- Antike Philosophie --- Mental Disorders

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This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation. The correct answer may reside in Babylonian astrology, since the development of the zodiac in the late 5th century BCE offered innovative approaches to the healing arts. The zodiac-a means of predicting the movements of heavenly bodies-transformed older divination (such as hemerologies listing lucky and unlucky days) and introduced more favorable magical techniques and medical prescriptions, which are comparable to those found in Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos and non-Hippocratic Greek medicine. Babylonian melothesia (i.e., the science of charting how zodiacal signs affect the human body) offers the most likely solution explaining the Uruk tablet.

History, Ancient --- Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian. --- History of Medicine --- Magic, Assyro-Babylonian --- Astrology -- Mesopotamia. --- History, Ancient -- Mesopotamia. --- Medical astrology. --- Occultism --- Superstitions --- Spiritual Therapies --- History --- Culture --- Complementary Therapies --- Humanities --- Therapeutics --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Magic --- Astrology --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian --- Magic, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Philosophy. --- Assyro-Babylonian magic --- Magic, Chaldean --- Assyro-Babylonian medicine --- Medicine, Ancient --- Medicine, Oriental --- astrology, medicine, magic, melothesia.

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This volume makes available for the first time in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on medicine in the Graeco-Roman world. The papers cover more than thirty years of Jouanna’s scholarship and range from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity. Part One studies the ways in which Greek medicine is related to its historical and cultural background (politics, rhetoric, drama, religion). Part Two studies a number of salient features of Hippocratic medicine, such as dietetics, theories of health and disease and concepts of psychosomatic interaction, in relation to Greek philosophical thought. Part Three studies the reception of Hippocratic medicine, especially medical ethics and the theory of the four humours, in Galen and in late antiquity.

Medicine, Greek and Roman --- Greek medicine --- Medicine, Roman --- Medicine, Unani --- Roman medicine --- Tibb (Medicine) --- Unani medicine --- Unani-Tibb (Medicine) --- Medicine, Ancient --- History --- Philosophy --- Galen. --- Hippocrates. --- Hippokrates --- Hippocrate --- Claudius Galenus --- Galen --- Galien, Claude --- Galenus --- Galeni --- Galeno --- Abuqrāṭ --- Ippocrate --- Ipoḳrat --- Hippocrates, --- Ypocras --- היפוקראטס --- بقراط --- Hipócrates --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Hippocrates --- Galen, Claudius --- Galenus, Claudius --- Galen, --- Galénos --- Galen, Klavdiĭ --- Galinus --- Galiʼenus --- Galiʼeno --- Galiʼenu --- Galien, --- Galeno, Claudio --- جالينوس --- Γαλῆνος --- Galênós, --- Pseudo-Galenus --- Classics --- Ancient Science & Medicine --- Classical history / classical civilisation --- Hippocratic Corpus --- Humorism --- Melancholia --- Wine --- Galien, claude (0131?-0201?) --- Hippocrate (0460-0377-av.-j.-c.) --- Médecine grecque et romaine