Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity: Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity:

The Example of Ancient MesopotamiaThe Example of Ancient Mesopotamia

Dr. Walter FarberDr. Walter Farber• Professor of Assyriology• Oriental Institute & Dept. of Near Eastern

Languages and Civilizations – University of Chicago (1980)

• Academic Background: – Ph.DPh.D, University of Tübingen, 1973– Dr. Phil. HabilDr. Phil. Habil, University of Munich, 1979

• Special Interests: Akkadian Language, Akkadian Literature, Mesopotamian Religion, Magic, and Medicine

• Member: Chicago Assyrian DictionaryChicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD), and co-editor Mesopotamian CivilizationsMesopotamian Civilizations

Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity

The Example of Ancient Mesopotamia

Walter Farber

Oriental Institute Mesopotamian Gallery

Diseases and Medicine in Ancient Babylonia

Sources

Pazuzu

The Code of Hammurapi

Diseases and Medicine in Ancient Babylonia

Diseases: Diagnostics and Conceptualization

Diseases and Medicine in Ancient Babylonia

Diseases: Diagnostics and Conceptualization

Lamashtu

Pazuzu

Diseases and Medicine in Ancient Babylonia

Healing Approaches

Gula, the goddess of healing, and her dog

The Gula Temple in Nippur

Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia

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