As the Babylonians had no biomedical understanding of the nature of disease, they attributed the seizures to possession by evil spirits and called for treating the condition through spiritual means.
Budući da Babilonci nisu ništa znali o biomedicinskom razumijevanju prirode bolesti, povezivali su napadaje s opsjednutošću zlim duhovima te pozivali na liječenje poremećaja duhovnim putem.