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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 22, 2018

Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.

Publication Details

Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983 CE.

"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practitioners from Babylonia and Egypt, whose expertise was acknowledged to be superior to that of local physicians, were welcome at the Hittite court" (G. Beckman, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30208, accessed 06-2018).

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Entry Number#10630
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/12823
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLhittite-birth-rituals

Geographic Context

Publication place: Wiesbaden