Russian traditional medicine

Gabriel Ivanovich Popov (1856-1909)-Russian physician, ethnographer, researcher of Russian traditional medicine, worked for many years in the Mariinsky hospital in St. Petersburg. He investigated and systematized the richest ethnographic material collected over the years of work and related to traditional medicine. The book discusses the causes of diseases, their classification and local names, the attitude of the people to healery and zemstvo medicine, superstitious and religious methods of treatment, signs, methods of prevention, universal folk remedies are given: bath, rubbing, herbal, herbal fees, conspiracies. In addition to the presentation of facts of exposure to the human body of universal folk remedies, the book presents about two hundred conspiracies. Circulation 30 copies. Made using Print-on-Demand technology