I smell a rat! Fumigation in Mesopotamian and Hippocratic recipes for women’s ailments – Part 1
By Ulrike Steinert In my first post on the blog, I described some of the difficulties in studying Mesopotamian medical texts from 2nd and 1st millennium BCE Babylonia and Assyria. In the following two contributions, I would like to discuss similarities between Babylonian and Hippocratic recipes applying “fumigation from below” as a therapy for gynaecological … Continue reading I smell a rat! Fumigation in Mesopotamian and Hippocratic recipes for women’s ailments – Part 1