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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Predicate Object
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 ⓘ