Near Eastern medical traditions

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Near Eastern medical traditions comprise the diverse healing practices, theories, and pharmacological knowledge developed in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Persian, and related cultures that significantly shaped later Greco-Roman and Hellenistic medicine.

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instanceOf cultural heritage
historical tradition
medical tradition
associatedWithDeity Gula
Imhotep
Isis
Ninisina
linked to: Nintinugga
hasComponent Egyptian medicine
Hittite medical practices
Mesopotamian medicine
Persian medicine
Syriac medical tradition
hasConcept demonic causation of disease
divine causation of disease
humoral balance
prognosis based on symptoms
hasGeographicScope Ancient Near East
hasSource Achaemenid medical texts
linked to: Persian medicine

Assyrian medical tablets
Diagnostic Handbook of Esagil-kin-apli
Ebers Papyrus
Edwin Smith Papyrus
Kahun Gynecological Papyrus
linked to: Kahun Papyrus
includesRegion Anatolia
Ancient Egypt
linked to: Pharaonic Egypt

Ancient Persia
linked to: Persia

Levant
linked to: Levant region

Mesopotamia
influenced Greco-Roman medicine
Hellenistic medicine
Islamic medicine
medieval European medicine
timePeriod Achaemenid period
linked to: Achaemenid Empire

Bronze Age
Hellenistic period
Iron Age
transmittedVia Arabic translations
Greek translations
Syriac translations
treatsCondition dental problems
eye diseases
fevers
gynecological disorders
wounds
usesMedium cuneiform tablets
papyrus scrolls
parchment manuscripts
usesMethod diagnostic handbooks
empirical observation
incantations
pharmacology
ritual healing
surgical procedures
usesSubstance animal-derived remedies
herbal remedies
mineral drugs

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Hellenistic medicine hasInfluenceFrom Near Eastern medical traditions