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Epilepsy in Babylonia (Cuneiform Monographs, 2)

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Stol’s comprehensive exploration of the Babylonians’ conception and remedy of epilepsy adds a new chapter to the history of this ancient disease. The creator presents the sources, examines the terminology and places epilepsy in context among kindred illnesses. A full edition (transliteration, translation, statement and cuneiform copy) of the relevant parts of the Diagnostic Handbook is included. In keeping with the Ancients, epileptics are ‘struck by the moon’. An examination of the connection between epilepsy and the moon yields surprising results. This volume deals with subject matter that was once unavailable to O. Temkin, creator of the classic The Falling Sickness; A history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the start of brand new neurology, (1971). It show that traditional views of the Ancient Near East lived on some of the Greeks and Romans.

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