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Description Medical recipe concerning poisoning. Terracotta tablet, from Nippur, Iraq, 18th century BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul.jpg |
English:
This tablet contains medical prescriptions of medicine and incantation against poisoning. The obverse gives 8 different prescriptions while the reverse recalls the cure made by the incantation.
Sample: Mustard, Pistacia, nuts, sweet mixed drink, meal of roast grain, thyme, bariratu-plant into wine in a small cup, you shall pour and smear on the skin, he will live. Terracotta tablet, from Nippur, Iraq, 18th century BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul. |
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Author | Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) |
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