***Special Guest Episode on Mesopotamian Medicine w/Moudhy Al-Rashid***
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In this special guest episode, Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid and I discuss ancient Mesopotamian medicine, in general, and her current research on the use of metaphor in descriptions of mental distress in cuneiform medical texts   Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2019/11/special-guest-episode-on-mesopotamian.html   Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid Post-Doc at Wolfson College, University of Oxford Twitter: https://twitter.com/Moudhy
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