Ardi-Nana Ardi-Nanâ
physician · Nineveh, Assyria · 7th century BC
Court physician to the king of Assyria. Letters reporting a patient's condition and treatment to the king survive on clay tablets.
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7th century BC
Concerning the patient who had blood run from his nose, the messenger has told me, saying, “Yesterday, at evening, much blood ran.” Those dressings are not with knowledge. They have been placed upon the breathing passages of the nose and oppress the breathing and come off, because of the bleeding. Let them be placed within the nostrils, they will preserve the breath and the blood will be held back.A letter to the king · in place of the original: the English translation by C. H. W. Johns (1904)
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