Assyrian Inscriptions

(British Museum.)
Translations by Prof. J. Helevy.


For eruptions and tumors which afflict the body: Fill a vase which has held drugs with water from an inexhaustible well; put in it a shoot of . . . a . . . reed, some date-sugar, some wine, some bitter hydromel; add to it some . . . saturate it with pure water(and) pour upon it the water of the (sick) man; cut reeds in an elevated meadow; beat some pure date-sugar with some pure honey; add some sweet oil which comes from the mountain (and) mix them together; rub (with this ointment,) the body of the (sick) man seven times.