Transcript TOPIC-HISTORY OF BABYLONIAN MEDICINE

BRIEF HISTORY OF
BABYLONIAN DYNASTY
 Babylonia was a civilization in Lower Mesopotamia ,
with Babylon as its capital.
 Babylonia adopted the written Semitic Akkadian
language for official use.
 Amorite dynasties was established in the city-state of
Babylon, which would ultimately take over the others
and form the first Babylonian empire, during what is
also called the Old Babylonian Period.
BABYLONIAN MEDICINE
INTRODUCTION
 The oldest Babylonian texts on medicine
date back to the First Babylonian Dynasty
in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC.
 The most extensive Babylonian medical
text, however, is the Diagnostic Handbook
written by the physician Esagil-kin-apli of
Borsippa, during the reign of the
Babylonian king Adad-apla-iddina (10691046 BC).
THE METHODS INTRODUCED
BY BABYLOIANS
 Next to the ancient Egyptians, the
ancient Babylonians introduced
concepts used today which are seen in
the modern world.
 They are known by their names of
diagnosis, prognosis, physical
examination, and prescription.
Babylonian Diagnosis
Handbook
 The ancient Babylonian Diagnosis Handbook gave a
text which list medical symptoms detailed by careful
observations along with logical rules in combining
pragmatic symptoms on the body of a patient with its
diagnosis and prognosis.
 The disease of a patient then was usually treated with
an assortment of pills, creams and bandages
depending on which type of recorded disease.
SPREAD OF BABYLONIAN
MEDICINE
 The ancient Babylonian Diagnosis Handbook was
established on a commonsensical set of axioms and
assumptions.
 And it is because of this, it has gone on to influence
the view and ways of medical procedure around the
world.
ByPrajwal S. Shetty
Group- 2