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Stick pricking the innards (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



Keywords
Greece
medicine
Mesopotamia
Period
Greek Classical Age
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Channel
Greek philosophers and scholars
Neo-Assyrian texts


Text
Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 13:
If he has a piercing pain or (he feels as if) a stick is placed in his epigastrium, and he defecates blood, he will die. If he has a piercing pain or (he feels as if) a stick is placed in his epigastrium, and he throws up dark blood, towards the second or third day he will die. If he has a piercing pain or (he feels as if) a stick is placed in his epigastrium, he is constipated, he will die.

BAM 216 29’:
If a man has piercing pain and it stings him like a thorn, it is the Hand of a Ghost.

Hippocratic Corpus, Epidemics 2.72:
Phrenitis: something like a thorn seems to be in the inward parts and to prick them. Loathing attacks the patient, he flees light and people, he loves the dark, and he is seizured by fear. The diaphragm swells outward, and is painful when touched.


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BAM 216 29’
Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 13
Hippocratic Corpus, Epidemics 2.72

Bibliography

Geller 2001-2002, 65Geller, 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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