KATALOG RUKOPISA IZ MEDICINE, FARMAKOLOGIJE I HIGIJENE U ORIJENTALNOM INSTITUTU U SARAJEVU
A CATALOG OF MANUSCRIPTS IN MEDICINE, PHARMACOLOGY, HYGIENE, AND SEXOLOGY AT THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF SARAJEVO

Summary/Abstract: In the public health culture and medical practice of the Yugoslav peoples there existed in the past three strong influences and ways: the Western, European, which came from our coastal region, usually through Bosnian Franciscans; the Eastern, Islamic, which represented the accepted, worked out and improved Iranian and Hellenic heritage in this field; the folk medicine and quackery. The second, Eastern component in the medical practice and treatment in general was probably the most widespread here. This is confirmed by the manuscripts in this field written in Arabic, Turkish and Persian which have been preserved until today in a considerable number, in spite of the fact that books disappeared or were destroyed in wars, fires, or other calamities through the ages. The Oriental Institute of Sarajevo has been collecting ori en tal manuscripts in our parts ever since its founding in 1950 and that activity is one of its tasks in the future also. On the basis of that activity we can speak with more knowledge about our scholarly and cultural treasure.

• Details
• Contents