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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.

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Chicago: J. Helevy, trans., "Assyrian Inscriptions," The Library of Original Sources in The Library of Original Sources, ed. Oliver J. Thatcher (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: University Research Extension Co., 1907), 436. Original Sources, accessed March 29, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=J5FNZZRTAX1C16A.

MLA: . "Assyrian Inscriptions." The Library of Original Sources, translted by J. Helevy, in The Library of Original Sources, edited by Oliver J. Thatcher, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, University Research Extension Co., 1907, page 436. Original Sources. 29 Mar. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=J5FNZZRTAX1C16A.

Harvard: (trans.), 'Assyrian Inscriptions' in The Library of Original Sources. cited in 1907, The Library of Original Sources, ed. , University Research Extension Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pp.436. Original Sources, retrieved 29 March 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=J5FNZZRTAX1C16A.