Languages
| Akk. |
Akkadian |
| Heb. |
Hebrew |
| Sum. |
Sumerian |
Egyptian Texts
| Bln |
Berlin Medical Papyrus |
| Bt |
Papyrus Beatty |
| CT |
Egyptian Coffin Text |
| Eb |
Papyrus Ebers |
| H |
Hearst Medical Papyrus |
| pBerlin |
Papyrus Berlin |
| pBritish Museum |
Papyrus British Museum |
| pLondon |
Papyrus London |
| pLouvre |
Papyrus Louvre |
| Ram |
Ramesseum |
| Sm |
Papyrus Edwin Smith |
Mesopotamian Texts
| Alamdimmû |
Physiognomic Series |
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Assur Medical Catalogue |
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| En. El. |
The Babylonian Creation Myth Enūma Eliš |
| Erimḫuš |
Bilingual vocabulary list |
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Nineveh Treatise on Sick Eyes; Therapeutic sub-corpus on the |
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| Izi |
Kassite acrographic word list, with Old Babylonian precursors |
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Therapeutic sub-corpus on the bronchia, followed by the sub-corpus sualu = stomach |
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| Malku |
Akkadian list of synonyms |
| Nabnitu |
Old Babylonian encyclopedic list |
| SA.GIG |
Diagnostic-Prognostic Series, or Diagnostic Handbook |
| sualu |
Therapeutic sub-corpus on the stomach, preceded by the sub-corpus sa gú = bronchia |
| (Šumma) ālu |
Terrestrial omen series |
| (Šumma) izbu |
Teratological omen series on birth anomalies |
| Udug-hul |
Sumerian Incantation Series against Evil Demons, revised and standardized in the 1st millennium |
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Therapeutic sub-corpus on the cranium, followed by the sub-corpus |
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| Ugu-mu |
Old Babylonian list of body parts ordered from head to foot, not known in later periods |
Other Ancient Near Eastern Texts
| bBerakot |
Tractate Berakot in the Babylonian Talmud |
| bNiddah |
Tractate Niddah in the Babylonian Talmud |
| lxx |
Septuagint |
| mNiddah |
Tractate Niddah in the Mishnah |
| yNiddah |
Tractate Niddah in the Talmud of the Land of Israel |
Greek and Roman Texts
Abbreviations mainly follow those in S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth, and E. Eidinow, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed. (Oxford, 2012), which have remained unchanged in the 5th and digital edition; and are supplemented by H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, and H. S. Jones, eds., A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed. (1940) with Supplement (Oxford, 1996).
| Arist. |
Aristotle |
| De an. |
De anima |
| Gen. an. |
De generatione animalium |
| Hist. an. |
Historia animalium |
| Mete. |
Meteorologica |
| Part. an. |
De partibus animalium |
| Poet. |
Poetica |
| Resp. |
De respiratione |
| Rh. |
Rhetorica |
| Somn. vig. |
De somno et vigilia |
| [Arist.] |
[Aristotle] |
| Mund. |
De mundo |
| Plant. |
De plantis |
| Pr. |
Problemata |
| Aristid. |
Aristides |
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Hieroi Logoi |
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| Or. |
Orationes |
| Arr. |
Arrian |
| Anab. |
Anabasis |
| Democr. |
Democritus |
| Diog. Apoll. |
Diogenes of Apollonia |
| Diog. Laert. |
Diogenes Laertius |
| Vit. phil. |
Vitae philosophorum |
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6th edition of H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker |
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| Emp. |
Empedocles |
| Gal. |
Galen |
| Foet. Form. |
De foetuum formatione |
| Hipp. Epid. |
In Hippocratis epidemiarum |
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In Hippocratis De natura hominum |
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| Hum. |
De humoribus |
| Loc. Aff. |
De locis affectis |
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De methodo medendi |
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| Nat. Fac. |
De naturalibus facultatibus |
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De placitis Hippocratis et Platonis |
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| Plat. Tim. |
In Platonis Timaeum |
| Prop. Plac. |
De proprius placitis |
| Sem. |
De semine |
| Sympt. Diff. |
De symptomatum differentiis |
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De usu partium |
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| Ut. Diss. |
De uteri dissectione |
| Ven. Art. Diss. |
De venarum arteriarumque dissectione |
| Hdt. |
Herodotus |
| [Hippoc.] |
[Hippocrates] |
| Alim. |
De alimento |
| Carn. |
De carnibus |
| Cord. |
De corde |
| De arte |
De arte |
| Epid. |
Epidemiae |
| Flat. |
De flatibus |
| Genit./Nat. puer. |
De genitura / De natura pueri |
| Loc. hom. |
De locis in homine |
| Morb. IV |
De morbis liber IV |
| Morb. sacr. |
De morbo sacro |
| Nat. hom. |
De natura hominis |
| Oss. |
De natura ossium |
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De vetere medicina |
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| Hipp. |
Hippolytus |
| Haer. |
Refutatio omnium haeresium |
| Hom. |
Homer |
| Il. |
Iliad |
| Od. |
Odyssey |
| Philol. |
Philolaus |
| Pl. |
Plato |
| Phd. |
Phaedo |
| Resp. |
Respublica |
| Ti. |
Timaeus |
| Plotinus, Enn. |
Plotinus, Enneades |
| Plut. |
Plutarch |
| Mor. |
Moralia |
| Vit. Aem. |
Vitae Parallelae, Aemilius Paulus |
| [Plut.] |
[Plutarch] |
| Placit. |
Placita philosophorum |
| Polyb. |
Polybius |
| Porph. |
Porphyry |
| Plot. |
Vita Plotini |
| Quint. |
Quintilian |
| Inst. |
Institutio oratoria |
| Ruf. |
Rufus of Ephesus |
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Quaestiones medicinales |
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| Sen. |
Seneca (the Younger) |
| QNat. |
Quaestiones naturales |
| Str. |
Strabo |
| Theophr. |
Theophrastus |
| Hist. pl. |
Historia plantarum |
| Sens. |
De sensibus |
Dictionaries
| AHw |
Akkadisches Handwörterbuch by Wolfram von Soden |
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The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago |