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Dermatotherapy at the end of the century - An ex tempore perspective after looking into a forgotten herbal and into neglected recipes of folk medicine

Recent investigations into old or traditional prescriptions, are spurred by several incentives: (i) discovery of new drugs not covered by copyright, (ii) elucidation of the pharmacologically active principles in herbs and remedies of folk-medicine, (iii) by ever rising costs of classical school-medicine. The increasing popularity of alternative (traditional) medicine works along the same lines. The general interest in old remedies, as well as the independent line of investigations carried out in Croatia, into prescriptions preserved in private or clerical institutions and traded down over the years in Latin as well as in Glagolitic script stimulated us to look into the prescription of remedies for local use on the skin vs. internal applications of drugs/plants. The results showed that dermatotherapy assume and keep a constant position throughout the history, largely due to the fact that skin presented a responsive territory for experiments, an arena for new treatment modalities into which forays could be undertaken ad libitum.

Martin Lessner� s herbal; Croatian recipe collections; history of dermatotherapy; history of medicine

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