Reblogged from sisterhimalaya
There is an amazing exhibition where I live (Belgrade), so I made some photos for you. It’s entitled “Serbian medicine through centuries”.
This particular photo shows our very first medical document, Medical codex of Hilandar (a copy, of course) with some traditional herbs.
St Sava collected various texts across the Arabic world and Europe about how to organize monastery hospitals, how to treat patients, but also how patients themselves could help the monks treating them. It was very modern for the time because it tried to eradicate all medical misconceptions, so called natural cures, especially superstition.