THE INFLUENCES OF MEDICINE OF ANTIQUITY ON THE MEDICAL PRACTICES OF PHYSICIAN BEREKET

Abstract

Physician Bereket gave theoretical and practical information of various fields of medicine in his book titled Tufhe-i Mübarizi which is accepted as one of the first Turkish medicine books written in Anatolia. He explained the concepts of health and illness by using various models in this book in which the theory of humoral pathology that was the constituent of the medicine of antiquity is the basis. He gave priority to disease-preventive approaches to maintain good health and to fight against the chronic nature of disease. He presented a wide spectrum of treatment in the process of healing while disease condition lasts, from discharge treatments to pharmaceutical treatments. By this book, it can be seen that the medicine has been progressing continuously since antiquity when the foundations of medicine established, including the Anatolian Seljuk period and the Medieval period of Orient.