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If chills seize the person (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

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Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 31.12:
If ditto (= sun-heat has overheated him) and he is now hot and now chilled, he has an infection but has no (outbreak of) sweat, that man will be ill for one month.

Hippocratic Corpus, Epidemics 2.41:
If, on the seventh day, chills seize this person, together with a violent fever, and he breaks out in a sweat, fine; if not, he dies on the seventh or ninth day.

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Diagnostic Handbook (Akkadian) 31.12
Hippocratic Corpus, Epidemics 2.41

Bibliography

Geller 2001-2002, 69Geller, 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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