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The audience had some great questions about medicine and women’s health in ancient Mesopotamia after yesterday’s chat with @digi_hammurabi
A short thread to revisit some of them and provide some (hopefully) useful links!
A short thread to revisit some of them and provide some (hopefully) useful links!
To read samples of primary source material for the study of medicine in ancient Assyria and Babylonia in translation, this google books preview of JoAnn Scurlock’s “Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine” allows for some #openaccess browsing books.google.co.uk/books/about/So…
While the two main categories of medical texts are diagnostic and therapeutic, there is a third category called “medical commentaries”, which are (usually later) commentaries on those diagnostic and therapeutic texts.
You can browse some of those here: ccp.yale.edu
You can browse some of those here: ccp.yale.edu
Menstruation in ancient Mesopotamia is mainly reconstructed from medical texts, which record experiences considered to deviate from the norm.
Read an example of a remedy to stop “the abnormal flow of a woman’s blood” published by Dr. Ulrike Steinert academia.edu/4023378/K.293_…
Read an example of a remedy to stop “the abnormal flow of a woman’s blood” published by Dr. Ulrike Steinert academia.edu/4023378/K.293_…
The “Mesopotamian pantheon” is a shorthand phrase for a complex, changing group of gods and goddesses who rise and fall in mythology and cultic practice over the course of 3,000+ years.
To learn about some of the key figures in that pantheon(s), visit oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdei…
To learn about some of the key figures in that pantheon(s), visit oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdei…
In the cuneiform lexical tradition, there are references to the “plant for giving birth” and the “plant for not giving birth”.
Could this suggest a herbal approach to contraception?
Could this suggest a herbal approach to contraception?
“I am a lady of amazing clothes. Let me cut up my menstruation rag.”
A Sumerian proverb copied down as part of the scribal curriculum features a lady so wealthy she can dispose of, rather than wash and reuse, her menstruation rags.
A Sumerian proverb copied down as part of the scribal curriculum features a lady so wealthy she can dispose of, rather than wash and reuse, her menstruation rags.
The general health and illness of women can be (quite rarely) reconstructed from skeletal remains.
A look at 17 individuals buried in the royal queens’ tombs at Nimrud shows a range of familiar conditions, from dental problems to inflammatory disease academia.edu/20227335/The_L…
A look at 17 individuals buried in the royal queens’ tombs at Nimrud shows a range of familiar conditions, from dental problems to inflammatory disease academia.edu/20227335/The_L…
