Ancient Babylonian Medicine Infectious & contagious diseases Foer shows how we can

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Ancient Babylonian Medicine Infectious & contagious diseases Foer shows how we canEven in the twenty first century, medicine remains something of a mystery. In a few significant areas we are hardly better informed than ancient and medieval practitioners. Yet when the topic of ancient medicine is broached, too often the tendency is to dismiss it solely as the product of ignorance and superstition. By delving into the way medicine was actually practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B. C., Ancient