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Mesopotamian Medicine
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Mesopotamian Medicine
Before the dawn of history, ancient man used cool water, leaf, dirt or mud as his soothening agents. Babylon, jewel of ancient Mesopotamia, often called the cradle of civilization, looking back at about 2600 B.C they provides the earliest known record of the art of the apothecary (the forerunner of the pharmacist). Babylonian healing practitioners combined the responsibilities of priest, physician, and pharmacist.
Mesopotamian Medicine
Ancient Babylonian methods find counterpart in today's modern pharmaceutical, medical, and spiritual care of the sick.
REFERENCES:
- Some of the oldest pharmacy records are found in Sumerian (Babylonian) clay cuneiform tablets.
- Medical texts on clay tablets record first the symptoms of illness, the prescription and directions for compounding, then an invocation to the gods.
- http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa.pdf
- http://www.ancient.eu/medicine/
- http://www.pharmacy.wsu.edu
Diagnostic Handbook
- The oldest Babylonian texts on medicine.
- Written by the physician Esagil-kin-apli of Borsippa.
- The text contains a list of medical symptoms and often detailed empirical observations.
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Bucayon, Juddi
Lacquio, Mary Grace
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Pestaño, Nelly Mar
- Introduce the methods of therapy and etiology and the use of empiricism, logic and rationality in diagnosis, prognosis and therapy.
- Along with contemporary ancient Egyptian medicine, the Babylonians introduced the concepts of diagnosis, prognosis, physical examination, and medical prescriptions.
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