M.M. DOBROTVORSKY AND N.V. KIRILLOV AS FOLK MEDICINE RESEARCHERS

Abstract

Summary - The doctors of the first half of XIX - the beginning
of XX centuries M.M. Dobrotvorsky and N.V. Kirillov were the
pioneers in researching into ethnic features of health maintenance
(folk medicine). They described Russian folk medicine (M.M. Dobrotvorsky)
and traditional oriental medicine practice in Tibet and
China (N.V. Kirillov). Systematising empirical data, the doctors
have found essential features that differ the traditional medicine
from the scientific one, showed reasons for a success of folk medicine,
set tasks to study accumulated traditional empirical experience
and apply it in scientific (European) medicine.