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Authors: E. A. Wallis Budge
ISBN-13: 9781169240926, ISBN-10: 1169240925
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company
Date Published: September 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
E. A. Wallis Budge was Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiques in the British Museum and author of numerous works.
Famed Egyptologist discusses the earliest herbals of the ancient Near East. Gods as herbalists, divine medicines, holy oils and unguents, much more. 13 black-and-white illus.
Prefatory Note | ||
I | The Old Gods as Herbalists and Their Divine Medicines | 1 |
II | The Divine Herbalists | 9 |
III | Water a Divine Element | 20 |
IV | Vegetable Substances of Divine Origin | 24 |
V | Ancient Egyptian Herbals and Books of Medicine | 26 |
VI | Holy Oils and Medicated Unguents | 29 |
VII | Sumerian and Assyrian Herbals | 86 |
VIII | The Greek Herbals | 54 |
IX | The Latin Herbals | 67 |
X | The Herbal in Syriac | 70 |
XI | The Herbal in Arabic | 76 |
XII | Coptic Lists of Plants | 79 |
XIII | The Ethiopian (Abyssinian) Herbal | 84 |
Index | 93 |