Diseases of Babylon: An Examination of Selected Texts

Kinnier Wilson J.V. . Organic diseases of ancient Mesopotamia, and Mental diseases of ancient Mesopotamia. In: Brothwell D. , Sandison A.T. , eds. Diseases in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diseases, Injuries and Surgery of Early Populations, Chaps 15 and 56. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas, 1967

Labat R. . Traité akkadien de Diagnostics et Pronostics médicaux. Leiden: E J Brill, 1951

Thompson R.C. . Assyrian Medical Texts From the Originals in The British Museum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1923

Köcher F. . Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Bd I–VI. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1963–1980

Powell M.A. . Drugs and pharmaceuticals in ancient Mesopotamia. In: Scarborough J. , ed. Studies in Ancient Medicine, The Healing Past: Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World, Vol. 7. Leiden: E J Brill, 1993: 47–67

Thompson R.C. . A Dictionary of Assyrian Botany. (A posthumous volume, completed and edited by C J Gadd.) London: The British Academy, 1949

Köcher F. . Keilschrifttexte zur assyrisch-babylonischen Drogen- und Pflanzenkunde. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1955: 5–9 (Inhaltsübersicht)

Townsend C.C. , Guest E. . Flora of Iraq, Vols I–IX (incomplete). Baghdad: Ministry of Agriculture, 1966

Chakravarty H.L. . Plant Wealth of Iraq: A Dictionary of Economic Plants, Vol. I (Vol. II not published). Baghdad: Botany directorate, Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, 1976

Hooper D. , Field H. . Useful Plants and Drugs of Iran and Iraq. Botanical series, Field Museum of Natural History, Vol. 9, No. 3. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1937

Postgate J.N. , Powell M.A. , eds. Bulletin on Sumerian Agriculture [Selected papers], from Vols I–VI. Cambridge: Sumerian Agricultural Group, Faculty of Oriental Studies, 1984–1992

Civil M. . Prescriptions médicales sumériennes. Rev Assyriol Archéol Orientale 1960; 54: 57–72 (with photographs 58–59)

Oppenheim A.L. . Mesopotamian Medicine. Bull Hist Med 1962; 36: 97–108

Finkel I.L. . Adad-apla-iddina, Esagil-kin-apli, and the series SA.GIG. In: Leichty E. , Ellis M. , Gerardi P. , eds. A Scientific Humanist: Studies in Memory of Abraham Sachs. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1988: 143–59

Hunger H. . Spätbabylonische Texte aus Uruk, I. Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Uruk-Warka, Band 9. Berlin: Gebr Mann Verlag, 1976

Oppenheim A.L. . On the observation of the pulse in Mesopotamian medicine. Orientalia 1962; 31: 27–33

Kinnier Wilson J.V. . The Nimrud catalogue of medical and physiognomical omina. Iraq 1962; 24: 60–2

Oppenheim A.L. . Medicine and physicians. In: Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization, Chap VI. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964: 288–305

Herrero P. , Sigrist M. . In: Herrero P. , ed. La thérapeutique mésopotamienne, Mémoire 48. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations; 1984

Biggs R.D. . Medizin in Mesopotamien. In: Edzard D.O. , ed. Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Bd 7. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1992: 623–629 (with references cited)

Ritter E.K. . Magical-expert (āšipu) and physician (asû); notes on two contemporary professions in Babylonian medicine. In: Studies in Honor of Benno Landsberger. The Oriental Institute, Assyriological Studies, No. 16. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965: 299–321

Durand J-M . Archives épistolaires de Mari I/1, Part VI: Maladies et médecins. In: Archives Royales de Mari, XXVI. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les civilisations, 1988: 543–60

Nor El-Din J. . Report on ancylostomiasis survey in Iraq, 1954, with an appendix on the incidence of other intestinal parasites in Iraq. Bull End Dis (Iraq) 1958; 2: 117–37

Oppenheim A.L. , ed. The Assyrian dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Vol. 6. Chicago: The Oriental Institute Glü: J J Augustin, 1956: 195

von Soden W. . Akkadisches Handwörterbuch. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1959–1981: 347

Shakir R.A. . Medicine in the Arab world. In: Walton J. , Barondess J.A. , Lock S. , eds. The Oxford Medical Companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994: 578–9

Labat R. . À propos de la chirurgie babylonienne. J Asiatique 1954; 242: 216–18

Cave A.J.E. . The evidence for the incidence of tuberculosis in ancient Egypt. Br J Tuberc 1939; 33: 142

Morse D. , Brothwell D. , Ucko P.J. . Tuberculosis in ancient Egypt. Am Rev Resp Dis 1964; 90: 524

Kiple K.F. , ed. The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Al-Imari A.J. . Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Iraq. J Fac Med Baghdad 1955; 19: 112

Kinnier Wilson J.V. , Reynolds E.H. . Translation and analysis of a cuneiform text forming part of a Babylonian treatise on epilepsy. Med Hist 1990; 34: 185–98

Stol M. . Epilepsy in Babylonia. Cuneiform Monographs 2. Groningen: Styx Publications, 1993

Civil M. . Medical commentaries from Nippur. J Nr East Stud 1974; 33: 331

Wells C. . Ancient obstetric hazards and female mortality. Bull NY Acad Med 1975; 51: 1235–49

Farjo P.D. . The incidence of Ancylostomiasis in Iraq. Bull End Dis (Iraq) 1960; 3(3,4): 29–35

Dyken M.E. , Rodnitzky R.L. . Periodic, aperiodic, and rhythmic motor disorders of sleep. Neurology 1992; 42(Suppl 6): 70

Strouhal E. . Life in Ancient Egypt. Viney D, transl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992: 248

Alexandersen V. . The pathology of the jaws and the temporomandibular joint. In: Brothwell D. , Sandison A.T. , eds. Diseases in Antiquity. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas, 1967: 580

Stol M. . Blindness and night-blindness in Akkadian. J Nr East Stud 1986; 45: 295–9

Köcher F. . Spätbabylonische medizinische Texte aus Uruk. In: Habrich C. , Marguth F. , Wolf J.H. , eds. Medizinische Diagnostik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Munich: Werner Fritsch, 1978: 20–1

Ruffer M.A. . Note on the presence of Bilharzia haematobia in Egyptian mummies of the Twentieth Dynasty (1250–1000 b.c.). BMJ 1910; 177: 16

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Zakaria H. . Historical study of Schistosoma haematobium and its immediate host, Bulinus truncatus, in central Iraq. J Fac Med Baghdad 1959; 1(NS): 2

Pringle G. . Oriental sore in Iraq: historical and epidemiological problems. Bull End Dis (Iraq) 1957; 2: 41–76 (esp 43–4)

Kuhnke LaV . Disease ecologies of the Middle East and North Africa. In: Kiple K.F. , ed. The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993: 459

Stol M. . Old Babylonian ophthalmology. In: Lebeau M. , Talon Ph , eds. Reflets des Deux Fleuves: Volume de Mélanges offerts à André Finet. Akkadica, supplementum VI. Leuven: Peeters, 1989: 163–6

Adamson P.B. . An assessment of some Akkadian medical terms. Rev Assyriol Archéol Orientale 1993; 87: 156

Köcher F. . Saharšubbû—zur Frage nach der Lepra im Alten Zweistromland. In: Wolf J.H. , ed. Aussatz–Lepra–Hansen-Krankheit: ein Menschheitsproblem im Wandel. Würzburg: verlegt vom Deutschen Aussätzigen-Hilfswerk, 1986: 27–34

Stol M. . Leprosy: new light from Greek and Babylonian sources. Jaarb Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genoots (Ex Oriente Lux) 1987–88; 30: 22–31

Manson-Bahr P.H. . Synopsis of Tropical Medicine, 2nd edn. London: Cassell, 1952: 160

Carmichael A.G. . Leprosy. In: Kiple K.F. , ed. The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Cambridge: CUP, 1993: 836