1582 RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)
Aigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....
Rauwolf provided the first modern descriptions of the flora of the area east of the Levantine coast. He was also the first to describe the riparian flora of the Euphrates, and the first European to publish an account …
GMN 7327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9498
1904 KÜCHLER, Friedrich
Beiträge zur Kenntnis der assyrisch-babylonischen Medizin. Texte mit Umschrift, Uebersetzung und Kommentar von Friedrich Küchler.
Cuneiform medical texts from the library of Ashurbanipal, together with German translations. A valuable paper on this subject is M. Jastrow’s "The medicine of the Babylonians and Assyrians," Proceedings Royal Society …
GMN 6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7929
1904 HAMMURABI, King of Babylon (-1792 – -1750); HARPER, Robert Francis (1864 – 1914)
The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2000 BCE. Autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections, and erasures, with map, frontispiece, and photograph of text by Robert Francis Harper.
The Code of Hammurabi was found among the cuneiform tablets of the library of Ashurbanipal. It is now in the Louvre. It was first published in Scheil, "Textes élamites-sémitiques. Deuxième série: accompagné de 20 plan…
GMN 1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8605
1923 THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
Assyrian medical texts. From the originals in the British Museum.
Facsimiles of the texts of 660 cuneiform medical tablets, many of which were hitherto unpublished, from the library of Ashurbanipal. The tablets date back to the seventh century B.C. No translations are included, but …
GMN 6471.92 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7931
1924 THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
The Assyrian herbal: A monograph on the Assyrian vegetable drugs, the subject matter of which was communicated in a paper to the Royal Society, March 20, 1924.
A study of Assyrian material medical reproduced by cyclostyle, in the author's handwriting.
GMN 1787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1841
1949 THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
A dictionary of Assyrian botany.
GMN 8514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10691
1954 KRAMER, Samuel Noah (1897 – 1990)
First pharmacopeia in man's recorded history.
The most ancient testimony concerning the opium poppy found to date was inscribed in cuneiform script on a small white clay tablet at the end of the third millennium BC. This tablet was discovered in 1954 during excav…
GMN 11916 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14121
1963 –1980 KÖCHER, Franz (1916 – 2002)
Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. 6 vols.
The texts of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages.
GMN 6473.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7936
1983 BECKMAN, Gary Michael (1948 – )
Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.
"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practition…
GMN 10630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12823
1993 STOL, Marten (1940 – )
Cuneiform Monographs II: Epilepsy in Babylonia.
GMN 8313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10489
1995 AVALOS, Hector (1958 – )
Illness and health care in the ancient Near East: The role of the temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel. Harvard Semitic Monographs, no. 54.
GMN 8505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10682
2000 STOL, Marten (1940 – ); WIGGERMANN, Franciscus Antonius Maria (1948 – )
Cuneiform Monographs 14: Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. by M. Stol with a chapter by F.A.M. Wiggermann.
GMN 8314 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10490
2000 HEESEL, Nils P.
Babylonisch-assyrische Diagnostik.
Study of the significance of medical diagnosis for Babylonian medicine. Analyzing the structure and contents of the Babylonian diagnostic handbook and the evolution of the diagnostic texts, the author shows that the d…
GMN 8507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10684
2000 STOL, Marten (1940 – ); WIGGERMANN, Franciscus Antonius Maria (1948 – )
Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. By Marten Stol, with a chapter by F. A. M. Wiggermann.
GMN 12142 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14351
2004 HORSTMANSHOFF, Manfred (1944 – ); STOL, Marten (1940 – )
Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.
The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…
GMN 8312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10488
2005 SCURLOCK, JoAnn (1953 – ); ANDERSON, Burton R.
Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian medicine: Ancient sources, translations, and modern medical analyses.
GMN 8510 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10687
2005 GELLER, Markham J.
Renal and rectal diseases texts. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Book 7).
Previous volumes of Franz Köcher’s series on Babylonian and Assyrian medical literature provided copies of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages. This volume edits all of…
GMN 8512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10689
2006 GELLER, Markham J.; FINKEL, Irving Leonard
Disease in Babylonia. Edited by Irving L. Finkel and Markham J. Geller.
"This collection of articles is the first collection of studies on the specific subject of disease in Babylonia, based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on p…
GMN 10631 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12824
2007 BÖCK, Barbara Alexandra
Das Handbuch Muššuɔu "Einreibung". Eine Serie sumerische und akkadischer Beschwörungen aus dem 1. Jt. vor Chr.
Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.
GMN 9737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11924
2010 GELLER, Markham J.
Ancient Babylonian medicine: Theory and practice.
The first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars. Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medici…
GMN 7082 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9249
2012 VERDERAME, Lorenzo
Bibliography of ancient Mesopotamian medicine.
This electronic resource is available at this link: http://lorenzoverderame.site.uniroma1.it/materiali/bibliography-of-ancient-mesopotamian-medicine.
GMN 8508 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10685
2013 GELLER, Markham J.; ET AL
BabMed - Babylonian medicine: Corpora
http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/babmed/Corpora/index.html "On the following pages, there are several draft versions: Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 1, Tf. 1-50 Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 2, Tf. 51-107 …
GMN 8513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10690
2014 SCURLOCK, JoAnn (1953 – )
Sourcebook for ancient Mesopotamian medicine.
GMN 8509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10686
2014 BÖCK, Barbara Alexandra
The healing goddess Gula: Towards an understanding of ancient Babylonian medicine.
GMN 8515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10692
2015 GELLER, Markham J.
Healing magic and evil demons: Canonical Udug-Hul incantations. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Texten und Untersuchungen, Vol. 8.)
GMN 8516 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10693
2018 GELLER, Markham J.; PANAYOTOV, Strahil V.; VACIN, Ludek
Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.
"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …
GMN 12538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14775
2020 GELLER, Markham J.; PANAYOTOV, Strahil V.
Mesopotamian eye disease texts: The Nineveh treatise.
"This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is pr…
GMN 12537 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14774
