Doctor's Medical Recipe from Babylon

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
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published on 14 April 2016
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Recipes involving plant and vegetable drugs were written on this clay tablet, but the purpose was not mentioned. Unlike many medical documents, it is a doctor's working copy rather than a library reference work. Probably from Babylon, Mesopotamia, Iraq. Circa 600-400 BCE. (The British Museum, London)

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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Amin, O. S. M. (2016, April 14). Doctor's Medical Recipe from Babylon. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/4904/doctors-medical-recipe-from-babylon/

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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Doctor's Medical Recipe from Babylon." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified April 14, 2016. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/4904/doctors-medical-recipe-from-babylon/.

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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Doctor's Medical Recipe from Babylon." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 14 Apr 2016. Web. 31 Mar 2023.

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