Annie Attia, also project advisor of BabMed, announced the publication of the 26th issue of Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes.
The first contribution is by András Bácskay (Budapest) deals with magico-medical prescriptions against fever and presents an edition of the new or late babylonian tablet BM 42272. The tablet contains twenty prescriptions and is one of the most comprehensive sources for the phylacteries against fever. The article includes transliterations and translations of the respective texts as well as paying a special attention on the fever prescriptions, and their parallels in other medical texts.
The second contributor, Susanne Beck (Tübingen), addresses the question of “sāmānu as a human disease”. By means of different medical cuneiform sources, she analyses the descriptions of sāmānu not only as a demon, but also as a disease associated with particular parts of the human body. The author proposes a deeper insight into the medico-magical sources of these descriptions as well as possible identifications of this disease in modern terms of medical practice.
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