Mincho Georgiev. Old Bulgarian Medicine. Second Edition
Categories: Medieval Bulgaria; History of Medicine
Language: Bulgarian with a summary in English
Original title: Старобългарската медицина

Table of contents /summary/

M. Dimitrova. To the sources of Bulgarian attitude toward the body, the disease and the healing

Introduction

Foundations of life

The unity of the animated and unanimated nature, vital functions and capacities of the soul, cosmic elements, classification of living creatures, heredities, development (evolution and ontogenesis) and reproduction (embryogenesis, pregnancy and delivery)

Structure of the human body seen as a container

Uterine body-container, physical liquids (humours and pneumata), substantial characteristics (warmth, dampness, dryness and coldness), the soul, configuration of the human body, body functions (thinking, speech, sensitivity, movement), most important internal organs (heart, brain, and liver)

Diseases, diagnostics, healing and prophylaxis

Diseases caused by extreme warmth and dampness, ecological and behavioral reasons for the diseases, diagnostics, nomenclature of affections, prognostics, therapeutics, hygiene and prophylaxis

Care for the sick

Doctors, healing centers and hospitals

Sources

Bibliography

Summary

Минчо Георгиев. Старобългарската медицина

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