[Preventive medicine in old religions]

Soz Praventivmed. 1984;29(2):72-7. doi: 10.1007/BF02077096.
[Article in German]

Abstract

This paper describes religious laws about hygienic problems in the old cultures. Special problems have been the prevention of infectious diseases, but also the problems of nutrition. The old laws had no great preventive efficiency, because the causes of the most diseases were unknown.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • History, Ancient
  • Hygiene
  • Preventive Medicine / history*
  • Religion and Medicine*