17. Strahil Panayotov: Assyrian eye medicine

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17. Strahil Panayotov: Assyrian eye medicineStrahil explains how Assyrian medicine worked. Who were the doctors and what did they do? Would their treatments have been effective? He discusses the problems caused by taxonomy. Different ideas about the human body and the diseases affecting it make it more difficult for us to understand Assyrian medicine. One of our most important sources is a newly reconstructed reference work, The Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia. 2:46 Assyrian doctors5:24 how medicine worked8:44 eye problems and their treatment12:25 the problem of taxonomy15:25 about our sources17:30 the Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia BabMed: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/babmed/index.htmlStrahil’s Academia: https://bas.academia.edu/StrahilPanayotov Music by Ruba Hillawi Website: http://wedgepod.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM7ZlAAgOXv4fbTDRyrWgw Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wedge_pod Patreon: http://Patreon.com/WedgePod

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