MEDICAL USE OF VEGETABLES IN THE PRACTICE OF ANCIENT DOCTORS (BASED ON THE TREATISE OF QUINTUS GARGILIUS MARTIAL MEDICINAE EX OLERIBUS ET POMIS).

Objective: The aim: The aim of our study is to investigate the specifics of the use of vegetables for the prevention and treatment of diseases in the medical practice of the Roman Empire.

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: The research material was based on the surviving fragments of the Roman writer Quintus Gargilius Martial's Medicinae ex oleribus et pomis. The study relied on general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as the method of contextual analysis, descriptive and interdisciplinary methods.

MEDICINAL HERBS AND PLANTS IN MEDIEVAL MEDICAL PRACTICE (BASED ON THE LATIN POEM "DE VIRIBUS HERBARUM" BY MACER FLORIDUS).

Objective: The aim: The aim of our research is to make an inventory and systematize prescriptions for the use of medicinal plants during the early Middle Ages, based on Macerus Floridus' original Latin text "De viribus herbarum", to develop awareness of the role of phytotherapy in medieval medicine and the possibility of integrating herbal medicine with modern conventional methods of prevention and treatment.

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: The material for this study is a medieval Latin didactic poem by the 11th-century French physician and researcher Odo of Meung-sur-Loire (pseudonym Macer Floridus), the extant manuscripts of which are known in the history of medicine as "De viribus herbarum" or "De natura herbarum". The medical-pharmacological treatise (published in 1831 by Ludwig Choulant) describes the medicinal properties of seventy-seven plants of peasant gardens, grasses of meadows and fields of Europe, medicinal herbs of medieval apothecary gardens as well as aromatic plants and spices of the East.

SUGGESTIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR MAINTAINING GOOD HEALTH IN «REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNI» BY ARNOLD OF VILLANOVA.

Objective: The aim: The aim of the study is collection, systematization and comprehensive analysis of suggestions and prescriptions for maintaining good health set forth by Arnold of Villanova in "Regimen Sanitatis Salerni".

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: The research is based on the first edition of "The Salernitan Rule of Health" (1479) by Arnold of Villanova that comprises 364 poems (103 chapters). In this investigation we consciously leave some later editions of the "Rule" unattended since they contain insertions that do not belong to the author.