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The purifying objects (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



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Greece
medicine
purification
Period
Greek Classical Age 		Channel
Greek philosophers and scholars

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The use of purifying substances is a basic ritual concept of Mesopotamian Namburbi incantations, such objects were deposited in inaccessible places.

Hippocratic Corpus, On the Sacred Disease:
Of the purifying objects (katharmatōn), some they hide in the earth, others they throw into the sea, others they carry away to the mountains, where nobody can touch them or tread on them.

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Hippocratic Corpus, On the Sacred Disease

Bibliography

Geller 2001-2002, 55-56Geller, Mark J. “West Meets East. Early Greek and Babylonian Diagnosis.” Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001-2002) 50-75.

Amar Annus


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