The volume includes the transliteration, translation and philological
notes of all published and some unpublished Assyrian and Babylonian
therapeutic texts related to 'fever'. More precisely, here I am
publishing all the therapeutic prescriptions whose medical incipit or
symptom descriptions includes some terms for 'fever'. I have separated
each prescription by incipits, collecting all manuscripts of a single
prescription, therefore the different prescription on the same tablet
can be presented in different texts (the list of the medical incipits
including the enumeration of the particular texts can be found in the
Appendix). In the discussion of various manuscripts relating to the
single prescription, I present not only the duplicates but also the text
variants. The book contains 87 texts which belong to 121 cuneiform
tablets classified under the main terms for 'fever': Nos. 0-49
prescriptions against 'heat' (ummu), Nos. 50-55 prescriptions against
'strong heat' (ummu dannu) and li'bu disease and Nos. 56-86
prescriptions against various forms of 'heat radiance' ( tu). We have to
emphasise that 'fever text' doesn't mean a standard medical series in
therapeutic text corpus but the recipes against the above-mentioned
three terms can be found on the compendium tablets and extract tablets
of the standard medical series such as: Cranium (No. 12, No. 14, No. 15,
No. 16, No. 23, No. 30, No. 31, No. 32, No. 38, No. 64), Eyes (No. 13,
No. 14 No. 65, No. 66), Teeth (No. 44), Ears (No. 15), Stomach and
Epigastrium (No. 18, No. 19, No. 20, No. 21, No. 28, No. 60, No. 78, No.
79, No. 68, No. 72, No. 84) and ghosts texts: No. 24, No. 70, No. 80,
No. 81).
