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(1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: [your servant] Urad-Nanaya. The very best [of healt]h [to the ki]ng, my lord! May Ninurta and Gula give [happin]ess and physical well-being [to the king], my [lo]rd! (7) (The prince) Aššur-ete]llu-šamê-erṣeti-muballissu [is doing very well. (8) As to the tampo]ns [of mar]takal-[seed] about which [the king], my lord, wrote to me, [those which] are (intended) to stop nasal hemorrhage are prepared [as follo]ws: (13) [They cru]sh it, [mix] it with cedar resin, [wra]p (the mixture) in red wool, and [reci]te an incantation [over it] and insert (the tampons) [in the…
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Urad-Nanaya. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Ninurta [and] Gula give happiness and physical [well-bein]g to the king, my lord! (7) The crown prince is doing very well. The treatment which we carried out and gave to the chest lasted for 1 1/2 hours; he retained consciousness and afterwards sat up (in his bed). How proper he is! (r 1) Concerning the patient whose nose bleeds, the rab mūgi told me that much blood flowed yesterday evening. (r 7) They are handling those tampons ignorantly! They put them against the cartilage of the nose,…
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