Zdrojový jazyk: Anglicky
Unlike the enviable situation of ancient Egypt there is as yet no palaeopathology for early Mesopotamia: accordingly,the evidence for conclusions reached derives entirely from many hundreds of cuneiform medical texts-from the
diagnostic and prognostic series abbreviated to TDP after the current edition, from the practical or 'therapeutic' series known as AMT (Assyrian medical texts) and BAM(Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin), and from a number of
shorter texts of individual kinds.