CLST 314- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 72 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Babylonian medical texts (from geller chapter 4 reading) Scholarship written by ancient babylonians is abundant (more than greece or rome), because they wrote in clay, and clay does not disintegrate. It seems that in babylon that surgical information was transmitted orally, since we don"t have texts with surgical instructions. Edwin smith surgical papyrus: one of the earliest people to learn to read pyratic (short hand of heiroglyphs) List of diseases that women can get and the treatments. Fumigation as a treatment: burn incense, and have the woman stand over it with a cloak, so it can go up the metu of the body (fumigate the vagina) If you suspect a patient to be infertile: put piece of garlic in vagina and leave over night, if you can smell garlic on her breath the next day she is fertile, and if not she is infertile.
