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Excerpt from Johns Hopkins University Circulars, Vol. 22: June, 1903 Among the Assyrian letters of the Sargonide dynasty, published by Professor Harper, are several letters written by arad-nana, the court physician of King Esarhaddon (680 - 668 B. And they aflbrd some interesting glimpses into the medical practice of the period. In one of them arad-nana writes to the king con cerning a patient, who would appear to have been suffering from facial erysipelas, and reports his treatment, which consisted in bandaging and the application of a dressing probably steeped in some emollient lotion, as being attended with favorable results. In another letter he advises that the nose be tamponed in a case of severe epistaxis. It is characteristic of Babylonian medicine that the same arad-nana, whose suggestion in this case is so eminently practical, prescribes for King Esarhaddon in another letter the performance of certain magical rites and recommends that the king wear a talisman about his neck. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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