4. Medicine, healing, and the royal body

Scholars responsible for the health and wellbeing of the royal family

Case study: Urad-Nanaya PGP , 'chief physician' (15 letters [SAA 10: 297; 314-327], 1 co-authored)

Case study: the Queen Mother's TT  illness of 670 BC

The king's medical advisors made no distinction between 'rational' therapy and 'irrational' magic. They drew on a range of strategies to maintain the royal family's health, involving both physical relief of suffering and spiritual purification TT , while providing the king with explanations of what they were doing and why.

Further reading

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