Treating Some Diseases of Eyes, Teeth and Ears in the Assyrian Medicine

Abstract

This research deals the medical treatments in Mesopotamia for some diseases that attacked man. It consists of three sections. The first section focuses on the medical treatments for eyes diseases like night blindness, trochoma, in flamations, and tumours. Also, it discusses the plants and herbs used for treating them.The second section is devoted to presenting the ancient medical treatments for various tooth diseases such as inflamutions, caries, and gum tumours and their treatment with herbs according to the experience doctors had. Finally the third section deals with ear diseases of the ways of treating them.Ancient medicine was primarily bused on the experiences transmitted across generations in treating diseases with herbs and different oils according to what has been mentioned in the cuneiform texts