Review article
https://doi.org/10.21857/94kl4cx4km
Medicinal Plants and Other Medicinal Substances in the Work of John the Baptist Lalangue from the Year of 1776
Franjo Martinez
orcid.org/0000-0002-6336-8131
; Čakovec
Abstract
The bright example of John the Baptist Lalangue proves that Croatia has been
an integral part of Europe for centuries. A dynamic exchange of people and ideas
has taken place ever since Croats were baptised. The paper deals with one such
foreigner from Western Europe who not only healed sick people, but through
his writings also strived to increase the level of enlightenment among common
people. His pharmacopeia is very simple even from the perspective of the then
medical science. It comprises medicinal plants and other medicinal substances
that are easily available to everyone. This paper highlights the original description
of certain medicinal herbs and is written in today’s language in order to facilitate
the reading. The paper also contains an appendix listing the most important
dictionaries and recipes by our older authors. The proportion of included pharmacopeia
indicates the extent to which people living in a certain period of time
were familiar with plants and their healing properties. Even though Lalangue
wrote his enlightenment booklets, translated by Croatian Franciscans, originally
in Latin, he nevertheless gained the honourable title of the father of Croatian
medical literature.
Keywords
physician; medicines, herbs; dictionary; Latin, German, June; kernel; pound, pint, herbal manuals; Old Kajkavian Dialect
Hrčak ID:
214509
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2018.
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