Ancient Babylonian Medicine Infectious & contagious diseases Reminiscent of Colm Toibin's Brooklyn

Reminiscent of Colm Toibin's Brooklyn

unfolds as a lyrical meditation on mortality and literary production

—DAMON LEMBI

strange place' Diana Gabaldon on Into the Wilderness

with quotes on joy and work from Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh

Ancient Babylonian Medicine Infectious & contagious diseases Reminiscent of Colm Toibin's BrooklynEven in the twenty first century, medicine remains something of a mystery. In a few significant areas we are hardly better informed than ancient and medieval practitioners. Yet when the topic of ancient medicine is broached, too often the tendency is to dismiss it solely as the product of ignorance and superstition. By delving into the way medicine was actually practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B. C., Ancient