Epilepsy is a condition known from antiquity that ’s characterise by seizures and often see with mark in gild . It turns out that stigma is nothing Modern . Ancient Assyria , one of the world ’s first empire , blame the status on the work of a ogre .
As reported inLes Journal Des Médecines Cunéiformes , Danish researcher Troels Pank Arbøll discovered a drawing of a demon on the back of a get it on cuneiform tablet of medicine from the first millenary BCE . Only a handful of such demonic word-painting are known from a similar era .
“ The origin give a unequalled insight into how an Assyrian doctor was trained in the artistic creation of diagnosing and treating sickness , and their causes , ” Dr Arbøll , from the University of Copenhagen , toldScienceNordic . “ It ’s an insight into some of the early examples of what we can discover as skill . ”
Epilepsy ( in a non - New term ) is not the only circumstance discuss in the tablet . Other psychological ailments are also present , but the others are not linked to satanic possession . For this reason , Arbøll believes that the delineation is aboutbennu , the epilepsy monster .
“ The physique is roughly 6.4 centimetres high and 2.6 centimetres wide , and it is clearly anthropomorphic . The head has ears and busty horns , a serpent ’s tongue , and perhaps a reptile - like eye . The neck is tenacious , and in general the being is likely covered with bad preserved scale or hair . Unfortunately , the absolute majority of the torso is fragmentary , ” Arbøll wrote in thepaper . “ The odd hand appears hook - or manus - like , and the correct hand is chunky with a pointy thumb . The animal has a farseeing tail placed alongside the left pegleg , and this pegleg appear to have discernible muscles . ”
The tablet is believed to have been write by an ancient doctor called Kisir - Ashur at the end of the 7th century BCE . Despite the monster on this pad , there is also a heap about herbal therapeutic , poisons , and venoms .
Epilepsy is an umbrella term for several neurological conditions that are characterized by recurring seizures . Often the cause for it is unknown . In 2015,39 million peoplewere estimated to lose from the condition .
[ H / T : ScienceNordic ]
