Advances in Mesopotamian Medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates

Annie Attia and Gilles Buisson are cofounders of Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes, which made its debut in 2003. Together they have worked on Akkadian medical literature both as authors and as editors of the journal. They also maintain their own medical practices.

• Introduction: “Oeilmalade etmauvais oeil”; Markham J. GellerThe Babylonian Physician Rabâ-ˇsa-Marduk. Another Look at Physicians and Exorcists in the Ancient Near East; Nils P. Heeßel“To be ill” in Akkadian:The Verb Sal¯a’u and the Substantive Sili’tu; Marten StolSome Notes on Medical Information outside the Medical Corpora; MartinWorthingtonCuneiform Tablets on Eye Diseases: Babylonian Sources in Relation to the Series diˇs na igiII-ˇsú gig; Jeanette C. FinckeOn Medical Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia; Barbara BöckL’ancienneté de lamédecine hippocratique: un essai de bilan; Paul Demont