This book provides something of real value: a new medical text, increasing available information on medical knowledge and illness in the ancient world. The subject of seizures ("epilepsy") is actually very complicated - as a survey of current medical texts would reveal - and the author has my sympathy as he ventures into the terrain of Babylonian thinking about this phenomenon. The very brief introduction does not, however, prepare the reader adequately. The discussion in the commentary is often difficult to follow, which is the result of several problems: the complex subject, a ...
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