"Vaistų nuo visų ligų" receptas-vartojimo instrukcija Kauno benediktinių vienuolyne: atvejo analizė

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Epidemijos; Kauno benediktinių vienuolynas; Ligos; Medicinos istorija; Receptai; Receptas; Vartojimo instrukcija; Benedictine Convent of Kaunas; Disease; Epidemics; Instruction; Medical history; Prescription; Recipes.

ENThe aim of the article is the analysis of the prescription – instruction for use, found in the Kaunas Convent’s documents in the Manuscripts Department of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. It is a valuable source, which gives us the opportunity to study specific cases of medical history – to look up details, and look for relations within the defined context from the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. This prescription was perpetrated in Vienna by the Lackmann family and was carried by Konstancja Małgorzata Lubomirska-Rzewuska (1761–1840), the wife of the Field Hetman of the Crown – Seweryn Rzewuski (1743–1811). One of the tasks of this article is to describe the structure of the prescription, namely the form andlanguage of the source, and also, to pointout the diseases for which it was intended. The data of the prescription is similarly compared with historiography in this article. In the prescription it is specified that the cure heals and offers prophylactic protection against contagions, epidemics, tuberculosis, tertian, chills and scarem, diarrhoea, headaches, paralysis, melancholy, hydrops, podagra, and can strengthen the memory and purify blood. There are some religious motives in this prescription as well. The chronology of the recipe, and the variety of medicated diseases allows us to ascribe it to the category of recipes that were popular during epidemics. In the prescription a psychic vein is emphasized, it could be approached as significance of the self-suggestion for the human organism. [From the publication]